adverb / noun
ivattu
"today"
"today" in spoken Kannada is ivattu. It's a adverb / noun that you'll first encounter in Lesson 4: The Weather is Nice Today of the KannadaMaadi course, where Anu and Ravi use it in context.
Grammar note Compare Tamil 'indru', Telugu 'ivvaala'; time adverb, no case ending needed.
Heard in a real Bengaluru conversation
Words land faster when you hear them inside a real sentence. ivattu is used in Lesson 4 (The Weather is Nice Today, CEFR A1) — a short audio conversation between Anu and Ravi set in a recognisable Bengaluru situation.
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