Thamil Paadanool (Draft Version)by Elango Cheranhttp://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool54January 2, 2004

use of passive verbs. Passive verbs show action happening to the directobject. However, sentences with passive verbs do not have a subject, orthe subject is indirectly expressed. (E.g. "The movie was seen", "Theymovie was seen by them")

Passive Voice 

A sentence is put into passive voice byreplacing the verb with infinitive +

gL

4

removing the case suffix

-I

from the direct objectadding the case suffix

-My;

to the subject, if it is expressed indirectly

Note that the

gL

4

of the passive verb is conjugated (i.e. gets its verbending) according to the direct object.Ex:

 murpay;thjpfs;me;j rl;lj;ij jLj;jhu;fs;

= "Politiciansblocked that law"

 me;j rl;lk;jLf;f gl;lJ

= "That law was blocked"

Xl;Ldu;fs;NgUe; Jfis Xl;Lfpwhu;fs;

= "Drivers drive thebuses"

NgUe; Jfs;Xl;Ldu;fshy;Xl;l gLfpd; wd

= "The buses weredriven by drivers"

 epiwa Ngu;mtid kjpg;ghu;fs;

= "Many people will respect him"

 mtd;kjpf;f gLthd;

= "He will be respected"

gL

The verb

gL

4

is used on its own to express emotions. The related word

gLj; J

3

is used to express the creation of the same emotions.

Emotions Expressed With 

gL

4 

/ 

gLj; J

3 

EmotionMeaning 

 

Thamil Paadanool (Draft Version)by Elango Cheranhttp://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool55January 2, 2004

 kfpo;r;rp

happiness

ngUik

pride

ntl;fk;

shyness

rpukk;

hardship

 mtruk;

haste, urgency

Iak;

doubt

nghwhik

 jealousy

Nfhgk;

anger

 mr;rk;

fear