What School Is Like

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.

Classroom words in Gujarati

Learn these school words:

Match each Gujarati word to its English meaning

The Gujarati word for a teacher

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

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

Put a school day in a sensible order.

• Go to school (શાળા, shala)
• Sit in the classroom (ઓરડો, orado)
• Study a lesson (પાઠ, paath)
• Do your homework (ઘરકામ, gharkaam)

The Gujarati word for an exam

Which Gujarati word means 'an exam'?

• પરીક્ષા (pariksha)
• પેન (pen)
• ઓરડો (orado)
• વિદ્યાર્થી (vidyarthi)

Saying the school words in Gujarati

At school શાળા (said _____), a student વિદ્યાર્થી (said _____) studies a lesson પાઠ (said _____) with a teacher શિક્ષક (said _____).

Gujarati puts is at the end

The school words become sentences once you add છે (chhe - is) at the end, where English would not put it: - હું વિદ્યાર્થી છું = "I am a student". હું (hu - I), then what you are, then છું (chhu) - the form of "am" that goes with હું. It still comes last. - શિક્ષક શાળામાં છે = "the teacher is at school". -માં (-ma - at, in) is stuck onto the end of શાળા, not placed before it, and છે closes the sentence.

Gujarati sticks "at" onto the end of the noun

Gujarati sticks "at" onto the end of the noun. Which of these says "the teacher is at school"?

• શિક્ષક શાળામાં છે (shikshak shalama chhe)
• શિક્ષક માં શાળા છે (shikshak ma shala chhe)
• શિક્ષક શાળામાં (shikshak shalama)
• હું વિદ્યાર્થી છું (hu vidyarthi chhu)

A school day

Choose the right Gujarati word for each school situation.

• You want to say 'a book'. You choose:
• You need the word for 'a teacher'. You choose:
• To say 'homework', you choose:

Use what you know

Use what you know about Gujarati to make each choice.

• Gujarati is written in which direction?
• In Gujarati, each consonant carries a built-in...
• 'A school' in Gujarati is:

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.