Pick Up and Drop Off

For usages such as pick up/drop off, dictionary look ups do not always show the correct words, as they will be literal translations. It is important to understand the action (क्रिया/भाव) and then use a proper word in Sanskrit. For example:

उत्सारयति = pick up - yes, but that is literally picking up something from the floor

If someone is being picked up, use आनयामि etc.

क्षिपति/क्षिप्यति = throw, पातयति = drop - but these are literally throwing or dropping something, like
कन्दुकं क्षिपामि - I throw the ball, पुस्तकं हस्तात् पातयामि - I drop the book from hand etc.

To drop off someone, use प्रापयामि, गमयामि, नयामि, प्रेषयामि etc.

When we want to say "shop is closed" - use आपणः पिहितः अस्ति/आसीत्, not आपणः निबिड (which means dense/closely held).

Similarly: Facebook post - better to use Facebook लेखनाङ्कः - not Facebook ध्वजः/पताका/स्तम्भः

Like us on Facebook - better use Facebook पुटं अनुमोदस्व/अनुमुद्यताम् - not Facebook पुटं इच्छतु - which is literal for desire (to want something).

Call someone (over the phone) = better use (दूर)भाषे संपर्कं करोमि/साधयामि rather than आह्वयामि

Every language has its own way of usage. English has its own structures, like the examples above, and they produce their meaning like that in that language. Sanskrit has its own.


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