conjunction (quotative)
andre
"means / that is to say"
"means / that is to say" in spoken Kannada is andre. It's a conjunction (quotative) that you'll first encounter in Lesson 7: Shall We Go to the Language Café? of the KannadaMaadi course, where Anu and Ravi use it in context.
Grammar note from andare; used like Hindi matlab to gloss a word: 'X andre Y' = 'X means Y'
Heard in a real Bengaluru conversation
Words land faster when you hear them inside a real sentence. andre is used in Lesson 7 (Shall We Go to the Language Café?, CEFR A1) — a short audio conversation between Anu and Ravi set in a recognisable Bengaluru situation.
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