### 🌟 Top Inspirational Quotes in Marathi
- **"ज िंकायचिं असेल तर प्रयत्न करावाच लागतो!"**
(*If you want to win, you must make the effort!*)
- **"ध्येय दरू आहे म्हणन
ू रस्ता सोडू नका."**
(*Don’t abandon the path just because the goal seems far.*)
- **"स्वतःवर ववश्वास ठे वा, कारण यश तुमच्याच पायाशी आहे ."**
(*Believe in yourself—success is already at your feet.*)
- **"कधीही हार मानू नका; प्रयत्न चालू ठे वा."**
(*Never give up; keep trying.*)
- **"स्वप्निं ती नव्हे त ी झोपल्यावर पडतात, स्वप्निं ती ी तम्
ु हाला झोपूच दे त नाहीत."**
(*Dreams aren’t what you see when you sleep—they’re what keep you awake.*)
| 🐘 **English Sentence** | 🌿 **Marathi Translation** |
|---------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| The elephant is a large and powerful animal. | हत्ती हा मोठा आणण ताकदवान प्राणी आहे . |
| It has a long trunk which it uses to eat and drink. | त्याचा सोंड लािंब असतो आणण तो खाण्यास व वपण्यास वापरतो.
|
| Elephants are mostly found in forests and grasslands. | हत्ती मख्
ु यतः िंगलात आणण गवती प्रदे शात आढळतात.
|
| They have big ears which help them to stay cool. | त्यािंच्या मोठ्या कानामळ
ु े त्यािंना थिंड राहण्यास मदत होते. |
| An elephant is known for its intelligence and memory. | हत्ती त्याच्या बुद्धधमत्ते आणण आठवणीसाठी प्रससद्ध आहे . |
Let’s break down the Marathi grammar used in the elephant description sentences so you can get a clear sense of
how this beautiful language is structured. 🌸
### 1. **Sentence Structure**
Marathi generally follows **Subject-Object-Verb** order, unlike English’s **Subject-Verb-Object**.
- **English**: The elephant is a large and powerful animal.
- **Marathi**: *हत्ती हा मोठा आणण ताकदवान प्राणी आहे .*
- **हत्ती** = Subject (elephant)
- **मोठा आणण ताकदवान प्राणी** = Object (large and powerful animal)
- **आहे ** = Verb (is)
### 2. **Gender and Case**
Words change form based on gender and number.
- *हत्ती* (Elephant) is **masculine singular**, so adjectives like *मोठा* (big) and *ताकदवान* (powerful) take
masculine forms.
### 3. **Postpositions Instead of Prepositions**
Marathi uses **postpositions**, which come after nouns.
- **English**: in forests
- **Marathi**: * िंगलात* = * िंगल* (forest) + *-आत* (inside)
The suffix “-आत” works like the English word “in.”
### 4. **Verb Conjugation and Tense**
Verbs in Marathi reflect the **tense, subject gender, and number**.
- *आहे * = is (present tense, singular)
- *आढळतात* = are found (present tense, plural)
- Verb ends with *-तात*, showing present tense for plural subjects.
### 5. **Use of Conjunctions**
- *आणण* = “and” (joins adjectives or nouns)
- *मोठा आणण ताकदवान* = big and powerful
### 6. **Possessive Pronouns and Reflexive Use**
- *त्याचा सोंड* = “his trunk”
- *त्याचा* = his
- Shows possession and matches masculine gender.
### 7. **Relative Clauses**
- * ो खाण्यास आणण वपण्यास वापरतो* = “which it uses to eat and drink”
- * ो* = who/which (masculine subject)
- *वापरतो* = uses (masculine singular verb)
