ලුසියානා ප්‍රංශ/ව්‍යාකරණ

ප්‍රංශ ව්‍යාකරණ

ප්‍රංශ ලතින් මූලික වූ භාෂාවකි. එනම් එය සතුව ස්පාඤ්ඤ, පෘතුගීසි, ඉතාලි හා වෙනත් ලතින් මූලික භාෂාවලට පොදු ලක්ෂණ ඇත. The most obvious of these is that nouns in Latin based languages have a gender associated with them. A noun can be feminine or masculine. Also, adjectives that modify these nouns must match in terms of gender. This is a difficult thing to remember, because there are so many nouns and they have specific genders. Let's take a look at some cognates and see how gender influences the words.

ප්‍රංශ	සිංහල	ලිංගභේදය
La table	මේසය	ස්ත්‍රීරූපී
Le garage	ගරාජය	පුරුෂරූපී
La vermine	පලිබෝධකයා	ස්ත්‍රීරූපී
Le jardin	උද්‍යානය	පුරුෂරූපී

So as a learner, care must be taken to memorize both the word and gender of every noun. There are some general rules for most nouns, but there are always exception.

From the previous example we see the definite pronoun in French - (le/la). In English this is the. The indefinite pronoun Un/Une in French corresponds to a/an in English. Un is for masculine nouns and une is for feminine nouns.

Common endings and their usual gender

පුරුෂරූපී	ස්ත්‍රීරූපී
-age	-ade
-aire	-aine
-at	-ère
-èle	-esse
-eur	-ette
-exe	-euse
-ment	-ise
-oir	-ure

In Cajun, words borrowed from English (zipper, truck, tv, computer) are masculin, and then there are some words like radio which can be either le/la, and it's la library.