Travel and Tourist Transactions
Counting, paying and asking. The words for money, price and a room, the numbers one to five, and the little words that come after the noun instead of before it.
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Counting and paying 🎫
A tourist transaction is mostly arithmetic and politeness: how many, how much, and where. This module gives you the words for all three. Every item is shown three ways: the **Gujarati** script, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Two of the words below are borrowed from English and you will recognise them instantly. Spend your effort on the others.
Key words 🗂️
The first two are borrowed and free. The rest are the ones worth learning properly:
Match each word to its meaning
- પૈસા (paisa)
- કિંમત (kimat)
- ચાવી (chavi)
- નકશો (naksho)
- money
- price
- key
- map
One to five 🔢
You cannot buy anything without these, and they are the same whatever you are counting:
Count them out 🧮
An interactive activity.
At the window 2️⃣
You need two tickets. Which is right?
- બે ટિકિટ (be tikit)
- એક ટિકિટ (ek tikit)
- ત્રણ ટિકિટ (tran tikit)
- પાંચ ટિકિટ (panch tikit)
The little word comes after ↩️
English puts the small word in front of the noun: **in** the house, **on** the table. Gujarati puts it **after** the noun instead, joined to the end. So ઘર (ghar) is house, and **ઘરમાં (gharma)** is IN the house. The word માં (ma) does the same job as the English word in, but it comes second. That single habit explains a lot of what looks strange when you first read Gujarati: the words are often in a different order from the English, not missing.
Which order? 📍
In Gujarati, where does a small word like the one meaning "in" go?
- After the noun, joined to the end of it
- Before the noun, as in English
- At the start of the whole sentence
- Either side; it does not matter
Which are true? ✅
Select the TWO true statements about the Gujarati in this module.
- A number goes in front of the thing being counted, as in બે ટિકિટ
- A small word meaning in or on comes after the noun, not before it
- ટિકિટ and સ્ટેશન are difficult words with no English connection
- Gujarati uses English number words when buying things
Asking for what you need 💬
Three expressions turn the words above into a transaction:
સ્ટેશન પર 🧭
An interactive activity.
The summary 🖊️
The Gujarati for money is _____ and for a price is _____. The number two is _____, and it goes in front of the thing you are counting. A small word meaning "in" goes _____ the noun, so house plus that word gives _____.
Your turn ✍️
An interactive activity.