Subordinating conjunctions උපකාරක සමුච්ච නිපාත

Subordinating conjunctions are used to join a subordinate dependent clause to an independent clause,
උපකාරක සමුච්ච නිපාත ප්‍රධාන වාක්‍යංශයකට උප වාක්‍යංශයක් සම්බන්ධ කිරීමට භාවිතා කරයි.

for example:
- I went swimming although it was cold.

Subordinating conjunctions usually come at the beginning of the subordinate clause උපකාරක සමුච්ච නිපාත උප වාක්‍යංශයට පෙරාතුව යොදයි.

The 7 coordinating conjunctions are short, simple words. They have only two or three letters. There's an easy way to remember them - their initials spell:

F A N B O Y S

For And Nor But Or Yet So

Common subordinating conjunctions are:

බොහෝ සමුච්ච නිපාත උපකාරක නිපාත වේ.

after පසුව

although එසේ උවද

as එවිට/එලෙස

because එමනිසා

before පෙර

how කෙසේද

if නම්

once වරක්

since සිට

than වඩා

that එම

though එ‍සේ වුවද

till තුරු

until වනතුරු

when විට

where කොහිද

whether දෙකින් කෝක නමුත්

while වනතුරු

main or
independent clause

ප්‍රධාන හෝ ස්වාධීන වාක්‍යංශය
subordinate or
dependent clause

උපකාරක හෝ රඳා පවතින වාක්‍යංශය

Poornima went swimming although it was raining.

subordinating
conjunction

උපකාරක සමුචිචිත නිපාතය

එය මෙලෙසද ලිවිය හැක
Although it was raining, Ram went swimming

Important subordinating conjunctions
Some of the most important subordinating conjunctions fall into two groups: contrast, and cause and effect.

Conjunction
Function
Example

although
(even) though
whereas
while
express contrast between ideas
අදහස තීව්ර කරයි
Although she's small, she's very strong.
John is short, whereas Mary is tall.

because
as
since
show a cause/effect relationship between ideas
හේතුවක්/කරුණක් ඉදිරිපත් කරයි

I lost my job because I was often late.
Since I have no money, I can't go to the movie.

ශිල්ප 64

main or independent clause ප්‍රධාන හෝ ස්වාධීන වාක්‍යංශය	subordinate or dependent clause උපකාරක හෝ රඳා පවතින වාක්‍යංශය
Poornima went swimming	although	it was raining.
	subordinating conjunction උපකාරක සමුචිචිත නිපාතය

Conjunction	Function	Example
although (even) though whereas while	express contrast between ideas අදහස තීව්ර කරයි	Although she's small, she's very strong. John is short, whereas Mary is tall.
because as since	show a cause/effect relationship between ideas හේතුවක්/කරුණක් ඉදිරිපත් කරයි	I lost my job because I was often late. Since I have no money, I can't go to the movie.