Marathi

//məˈɹɑːti//

"Marathi" in a Sentence (15 examples)

In English, your answer can be 'correct' or 'incorrect'; but in Marathi, your answer can be 'wrong' or 'un-wrong'.

Do you speak Marathi?

Are you Marathi?

Gujarati is very similar to my native Marathi.

Gita speaks Marathi with her mother and Gujarati with her father.

Our film has Punjabi actors, a Marathi writer, a Telugu director, and a Bengali composer.

His Marathi had a distinctly Konkani accent.

The 17th century king Shivaji is widely regarded as a folk hero by the Marathi people.

My dream is to study Marathi in Mumbai.

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language.

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I made a pact with her that she would teach me more Marathi and I could teach her the English alphabet.

1882, R. V. Modak, History of the Native Churches Associated with the American Marathi Mission..., in Memorial Papers of the American Marathi Mission, 1813-1881, American Marathi Mission, page 11, In March 1831, Moroba, a Marathi, was received to the church.

'These people want places reserved for Marathis in railways jobs, so they’re attacking candidates across the city … Bhai, this'll turn ugly before you know it.'

2022, Hrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle, Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality, Oxford University Press, unnumbered page, In formulating the idea of a vernacular performative, the intention has been to situate Marathi filmmaking of the 1950s within a post-studio scenario.

For years now, local parties in Mumbai had campaigned for Marathi people to get preferential treatment – land, housing, jobs.

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