“I've never eaten Japanese food.” in Marathi (English × Marathi)

When to use it

Use it when someone invites you for sushi and it would be your first time.

“I've never eaten Japanese food.” · The sentence in English

In “I've never eaten Japanese food.” the present perfect (‘have’ + ‘eaten’) marks a life experience.

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

've

auxiliary verbhave · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · short form of "have"; with "eaten" it talks about life experience up to now

never

adverbadverb of frequency

eaten

verbeat · form: past participle · irregular verb: eat, ate, eaten

Japanese

adjectiveadjective of nationality, always capitalised in English

food

nounnoun

“मी कधीच जपानी जेवण खाल्लेलं नाही.” · The sentence in Marathi

In “मी कधीच जपानी जेवण खाल्लेलं नाही.” the participle ‘खाल्लेलं’ (eaten) agrees with ‘जेवण’ (food, neuter), not with ‘मी’ (I). ‘कधीच… नाही’ together mean ‘never’.

मी

pronoun'I'

कधीच

adverbkadhī 'ever' + emphatic -c; with a negative, 'never'

जपानी

adjective'Japanese', before the noun

जेवण

noun'food, meal'

खाल्लेलं

verbkhāṇe · form: past participle (neuter) · 'eaten'; agrees in gender with jevaṇ

नाही

auxiliary verbnasṇe · tense: present · 'not'; the experience hasn't happened

What changes from one language to the other · English × Marathi

In English the verb ignores the object; in Marathi it agrees with the object's gender. Both put ‘Japanese’ before the noun.

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