Talk:Gurmukhi to English

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Please help me understand the pauris better. I'm having a lot of trouble finding many of the words in the pauris in the SikhiWiki Gurmukhi to English "dictionary" - apparently because they're in a different form in the pauris.

For example, take the 33rd pauri, AAKHAN JOR. I'm beginning my study of the pauris with this one, and trying to learn each word of this beautful scripture as deeply as possible. But the very first word, AAKHAN, isn't listed under the A section of the dictionary. After spending several days looking all over the web trying to figure it out, today I finally thought to look under K, and found "ਕਹ੝ - kahu - says (kehna - to say)." That seems like the word, but what form of the verb is it?

Thankfully, JOR is listed, but the next word, CHUPAI, isn't. I've searched Dictionary for the English words "silence," "quiet," "mute," etc, but found nothing. Where is CHUPAI? Please, there must be some form of this word in the dictionary, but I can't find it.

A simple list of all usages of each word, particularly verbs, would be very helpful. Just something like "AAKHAN ... [grammatical form] of KHENA, to say." And so forth. Or the various forms of the verb could be listed after the infinitive, so that they would be found by a browser search engine on the Dictionary page.