verb phrase (imperative)
phone maadu
"to phone / to call"
"to phone / to call" in spoken Kannada is phone maadu. It's a verb phrase (imperative) that you'll first encounter in Lesson 19: Winding Down at Night — Door, Light, Sleep of the KannadaMaadi course, where Anu and Ravi use it in context.
Grammar note English loan + maadu 'to do'; past phone maadiddeeyaa = 'did you call?'
Heard in a real Bengaluru conversation
Words land faster when you hear them inside a real sentence. phone maadu is used in Lesson 19 (Winding Down at Night — Door, Light, Sleep, CEFR B1), a short audio conversation between Anu and Ravi set in a recognisable Bengaluru situation.
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