#like he's not illiterate in malayalam but he's not literate either??

[guillemelgat]

WOTDs in Malayalam

I’m cramming a week worth of Words of the Day into one post for Week 4 of the Target Language 90 Days Challenge. Theese were all words that my dad sent to me when we were doing a WOTD thing, plus the sentences I wrote with them and his corrections, so they should be reasonably correct?? Although he also can’t spell super well so??? Let me know if you see any mistakes.

തണുപ്പ് /taṇuppŭ/ - cold (n.)

അച്ചന് തണുപ്പ് ഉണ്ടൊ? /accanŭ taṇuppŭ uṇṭo/ - Does father have a cold?

ഒന്ന് /onnŭ/ - please*

ഒന്ന് ഇവിടെ വരു /onnŭ iviṭe varu/ - Please come here (polite/formal)

സുഖം /sukham/ - health

എനിക്ക് സുഖം ഇല്ല /enikkŭ sukham illa/ - I am sick (lit. I do not have health)

ഉപ്പ് /uppŭ/ - salt

ഉപ്പ് എനിക്ക് ഇഷ്ടമാണ് /uppŭ enikkŭ iṣṭamāṇŭ/ - I like salt

ഉടനെ /uṭane/ - immediately, at once

ഞാൻ ഉടനെ പറയഞ്ഞില്ല /ñān uṭane paṛayaññilla/ - I did not say it immediately

കുട്ടി /kuṭṭi/ - child (n.), small (adj.)

എന്റെ പൂച്ച കുട്ടിയല്ല /enṛe pūcca kuṭṭiyalla/ - My cat is not small

ഉന്തുക /untuka/ - to push**

അമ്മേ മാലതി എന്നേ ഉന്തി! /ammē mālati ennē unti/ - Mom, Malathi pushed me!

* - also means one, as in the numeral

** - I think this might be my family’s dialect, if other people don’t recognize it that’s probably why, also the sentence may not be spelled 100% correctly