verb (present, 2nd person formal)
maadutteeraa
"do you do (formal)"
"do you do (formal)" in spoken Kannada is maadutteeraa. It's a verb (present, 2nd person formal) that you'll first encounter in Lesson 2: Where are you from? — Getting acquainted of the KannadaMaadi course, where Anu and Ravi use it in context.
Grammar note maadu (do) + -utteeraa; -utteeraa is the formal 2nd-person present-tense question suffix
Heard in a real Bengaluru conversation
Words land faster when you hear them inside a real sentence. maadutteeraa is used in Lesson 2 (Where are you from? — Getting acquainted, CEFR A1) — a short audio conversation between Anu and Ravi set in a recognisable Bengaluru situation.
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