Nepali Sentence Structure

English is a SVO(Subject-Verb-Object) language while Nepali is a SOV(Subject-Object-Verb) language.

Let’s look at the first example. See the colour groups for faster understanding.

difference between english and nepali sentence structure

Let’s see one more example.

difference between english and nepali sentence structure

Note:

  1. A ‘to be’ helping verb is required in most of the Nepali sentences.
  2. In Devanagari, there is no concept that ‘a sentence starts with a capital letter’ or ‘a proper noun starts with a capital letter’. All letters are of same size for all words.