What School Is Like
Learn the Gujarati words for school: the teacher, the lesson, the book and more. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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School in Gujarati 🏫
This topic is about **school**. Every word comes with its **Gujarati script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Gujarati is written **left to right**.
Key words 📖
Learn these school words:
Match each Gujarati word to its English meaning
- શાળા (shala)
- શિક્ષક (shikshak)
- વિદ્યાર્થી (vidyarthi)
- પુસ્તક (pustak)
- school
- teacher
- student
- book
Which word?
Which Gujarati word means 'a teacher'?
- શિક્ષક (shikshak)
- વિદ્યાર્થી (vidyarthi)
- પુસ્તક (pustak)
- ઓરડો (orado)
How the script works 📝
Two things about Gujarati script. First, it is written **left to right** and has no capital letters. Second, it is an **abugida**: each consonant carries a built-in 'a' sound, and small marks called **matras** change the vowel. For example, શ is said "sha". Learn each word with its transliteration to help you say it.
School words
Select the TWO words connected with school.
- પાઠ (paath)
- પરીક્ષા (pariksha)
- ગામ (gam)
- પિતા (pita)
Match each Gujarati word to how it is said
- ઓરડો
- પેન
- ઘરકામ
- વિદ્યાર્થી
- orado
- pen
- gharkaam
- vidyarthi
How do you say it?
The school શાળા is said _____. The teacher શિક્ષક is said _____. A book પુસ્તક is said _____. A lesson પાઠ is said _____.
Order the school day
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Which word?
Which Gujarati word means 'an exam'?
- પરીક્ષા (pariksha)
- પેન (pen)
- ઓરડો (orado)
- વિદ્યાર્થી (vidyarthi)
Complete the sentence
At school શાળા (said _____), a student વિદ્યાર્થી (said _____) studies a lesson પાઠ (said _____) with a teacher શિક્ષક (said _____).
A school day
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Use what you know
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Well done 🌟
You have met the key Gujarati school words: શાળા (shala, school), શિક્ષક (shikshak, teacher), વિદ્યાર્થી (vidyarthi, student), પાઠ (paath, lesson), પુસ્તક (pustak, book) and પરીક્ષા (pariksha, exam). Keep practising the script and the transliteration together.