கிறு

Tamil

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kirɯ/

Particle

-கிறு- • (-kiṟu-)

1. present-tense marker for verbs

Usage notes

Class 6 and 7 verbs (see also Template:ta-conj-auto) geminate this marker into -க்கிற்- (-kkiṟ-) instead.

References

• Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “கிறு”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]