ఉండు

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To be.
 * 2) To be alive.
 * 3) To reside, dwell.
 * 4) To stay, remain somewhere.
 * 1) To reside, dwell.
 * 2) To stay, remain somewhere.
 * 1) To stay, remain somewhere.

Usage notes
The usage of does not map exactly to English to be. Telugu is a language for sentences whose predicate is a noun, so the translation of the English sentence "My name is John" would not use. However, for sentences that in English have adjectives as predicates (like He is beautiful.), Telugu would treat the adjective as an adverb modifying, so that the sentence is predicate-less and consists of a subject and a.