adverb / pronoun
obbanē / obbaḷē
"alone (masc. / fem.)"
"alone (masc. / fem.)" in spoken Kannada is obbanē / obbaḷē. It's a adverb / pronoun that you'll first encounter in Lesson 13: Did You Bring Me Something? of the KannadaMaadi course, where Anu and Ravi use it in context.
Grammar note from obba 'one person' + emphatic -ē; gender agrees with speaker
Heard in a real Bengaluru conversation
Words land faster when you hear them inside a real sentence. obbanē / obbaḷē is used in Lesson 13 (Did You Bring Me Something?, CEFR A2) — a short audio conversation between Anu and Ravi set in a recognisable Bengaluru situation.
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