Put ಮಾಡು into the correct form for each subject.

Two checks. Did you use ಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ for a single respected person? And did you use ಮಾಡುತ್ತೆ rather than a personal ending for a bus or a dog? Both errors are common and both are noticeable.

Choose between ಇಲ್ಲ, ಬೇಡ and ಅಲ್ಲ for each situation.

1. Someone offers you tea and you decline.
2. You want to say there is no money.
3. You want to say this is not your bag.
4. You want to say he is not a doctor.
5. You want to tell a child not to run.

If you used ಇಲ್ಲ to decline the tea, that is the single most common negation error in Kannada. ಇಲ್ಲ denies existence; ಬೇಡ refuses an offer.

Produce each of these in correct subject-object-verb order with the right respect level.

1. I am going to the office tomorrow.
2. Please give me a little water. (to a stranger)
3. I don’t know where it is.
4. They came yesterday. (respectful, one person)
5. This is not difficult.

Check the verb is last in every sentence, and that question three used ಅಂತ to embed the clause. That particle is what turns a question into a reported one.

One further check, and it is the one that separates textbook grammar from usable grammar: can you produce these under time pressure? Grammar you can construct in ten seconds is not grammar you can speak. Try saying all five round four sentences again with a two-second limit each, and notice which ones collapse.

The usual culprit is the respect decision. Learners can produce the verb and the case ending correctly but stall while deciding between ನೀನು and ನೀವು, or between ಅವನು and ಅವರು. The fix is to stop treating it as a decision: default to the polite form every time until it is automatic, and only relax it with people who have relaxed it with you first.

One further check, and it is the one that separates textbook grammar from usable grammar: can you produce these under time pressure? Grammar you can construct in ten seconds is not grammar you can speak. Try saying all five round four sentences again with a two-second limit each, and notice which ones collapse.

The usual culprit is the respect decision. Learners can produce the verb and the case ending correctly but stall while deciding between ನೀನು and ನೀವು, or between ಅವನು and ಅವರು. The fix is to stop treating it as a decision: default to the polite form every time until it is automatic, and only relax it with people who have relaxed it with you first.

• Placing case endings before the noun. Kannada has no prepositions; everything attaches to the end.
• Using ಇಲ್ಲ to decline an offer. Offers take ಬೇಡ.
• Giving ಅವರು a singular verb. One respected person still takes ಬಂದರು.
• Using a personal ending for a non-human subject. Buses and dogs take -ಉತ್ತೆ.
• Putting the verb anywhere but last. The most persistent English-speaker habit.

• Round one failures: revisit grammar-nouns. Case endings are the foundation of everything else.
• Round two failures: revisit grammar-verbs and respectful-speech. These two interact constantly.
• Round three failures: revisit grammar-negative-sentences. The four-way split is genuinely difficult.
• Round four failures: revisit grammar-sentence-structure. Word order plus respect is where it all comes together.
• Errors across all four: slow down and work through the grammar module in order rather than quizzing.

1. Case endings are unstressed and run into the noun — no pause before -ಗೆ.
2. ಮಾಡ್ತಾನೆ and ಮಾಡ್ತಾಳೆ differ by one consonant. Practise the pair.
3. ಇಲ್ಲ and ಅಲ್ಲ differ by one vowel. Same.
4. Spoken verb endings are contracted. Say ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ, not the written full form.
5. Deliver whole sentences at speed rather than word by word.