naana

What naana means

naana is written نانا in the Urdu script and means grandfather (maternal) in English. It is taught in the Family lessons under Grandparents & Elders.

You will also see it romanized as nana. Urdu has no single standard romanization; the script spelling is the same.

Forms of naana

naana is masculine, but like other kinship words and titles in -a it does not change before a postposition: naana ka, naana se.

Gender is taken from the course word list. The postposition rule is explained on the postpositions page, and how gender works on the noun gender page.

naana in example sentences

• میرے نانا اور نانی دونوں فوت ہو چکے ہیں۔

  Both my grandfather and grandmother are dead. Tatoeba #1497748

• میرے نانا ابو کو کتابیں پڑھنے کا شوق ہے۔

  My grandfather likes reading books. Tatoeba #1928545

Example sentences from Tatoeba, licensed CC BY 2.0 FR. Contributors are named on each sentence page.

Often in the same sentence

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