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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Thus shall is used with the meaning of obligation, and will with the meaning of desire or intention. An illustration of the supposed contrast between shall and will (when the prescriptive rule is adhered to) appeared in the 19th century, [11] and has been repeated in the 20th century [12] and in the 21st: [13] I shall drown; no one will save me!

  3. Tamil grammar - Wikipedia

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    The vowels are called uyir, meaning soul, in Tamil. The consonants are known as mey, meaning body. When the alphasyllabary is formed, the letter shall be taking the form of the consonants, that is the body, and the sound shall be that of the corresponding vowel, that is the soul.

  4. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia. The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list.

  5. Tamil honorifics - Wikipedia

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    ஐயா (Aiyā) is an honorific suffix literally meaning 'Father'. It can be used to mean 'respectful' when addressing someone of equal or higher social order. யா (yā) is a contraction of ஐயா (Aiyā), and is also an honorific suffix attached to a noun. It shows familiarity between the speakers, and can be a faux pas if not used ...

  6. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian, like the Polynesian languages generally, is an isolating language, so its verbal grammar exclusively relies on unconjugated verbs. Thus, as with creoles, there is no real distinction between modal auxiliaries and lexically modal main verbs that are followed by another main verb.

  7. List of Tamil proverbs - Wikipedia

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    The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.

  8. Talk:Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    It is doubtful if there ever a distinction in the language between "shall" and "will." There was once thought to be a meaningful distinction between "shall" and "will," it is suggested that there is or has been no difference between will and shall. This is of course false.

  9. Talk:List of English words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil Language which was used (to write Silapathikaram and Thirukural) 20 centuries back is essentially the same language which has been used now (except for the regional slangs in spoken forms) In fact except Tamil and Sanskrit, no other Indian language has the same vocabulary and grammar structure for more than 10 decades.