About Ver
Why Ver exists
Ver (வேர்) means "root" in Tamil. Millions of Tamil families live outside Tamil Nadu, and many children of the diaspora grow up hearing Tamil without ever learning to read it — while their parents search for a way to pass on more than vocabulary: the proverbs their own grandparents used, the couplets memorised in school, the multiplication tables once recited aloud in classrooms.
Ver gathers those roots in one place. It is a free learning app — no account, no paywall — built around the things Tamil speakers actually grew up with: பழமொழிகள் (proverbs), திருக்குறள் (Thirukkural), ஆத்திசூடி (Aathichudi), grammar, the Tamil number words, letters and their sounds, traditional measurements, and the sixty-year calendar cycle.
What makes it different
Every proverb in Ver carries more than a translation: a plain-language meaning, a short illustrative story written for this app, and a reader’s note on how the saying is actually used. Grammar topics come with worked examples; measurement units and calendar entries carry context notes, not just names.
Because the diaspora reads in many scripts, Ver’s interface and content translations cover more than 55 languages — a child in Paris can read a kural’s meaning in French while seeing the Tamil original, and a parent in Tokyo can switch the same page to Japanese. Non-Latin readers also get native-script pronunciation aids, not just romanised Tamil.
And because recitation is how Tamil has always been taught, nearly everything can be listened to: proverbs, stories, tables and letters are read aloud with word-by-word highlighting, with six narrator voice styles to choose from.
Sources and attribution
The complete Thirukkural (all 1330 couplets) includes G.U. Pope’s public-domain English prose translation and poetic rendering, and Mu. Varadarajanar’s published Tamil commentary, drawn from the open-source compilation by the tk120404 Thirukkural project. The complete Aathichudi (109 lines of Avvaiyar) comes from the same community’s open compilation.
Proverbs, their meanings, stories and reader notes, the grammar topics, and the selections from Moothurai, Kondraivendhan, Nanneri, Nalvazhi, Iniyavai Narpathu and Innaa Narpathu are curated and written by the Ver team. Proverb wordings can vary by region and source; where variants exist we chose widely used forms.
Found an error in a verse or a translation? Tell us — corrections ship in days, not months.
Who builds Ver
Ver is designed and maintained by Fueris Technologies, a software studio in Chennai, Tamil Nadu — the heartland of the language this app serves. Ver began as a mobile app on the Play Store and App Store; this website brings the same content to the open web so it can be searched, linked and shared.
The site is free to use and supported by advertising. If Ver helped you or your family, sharing a proverb page with someone is the best way to support it.
Contact
Reach the team through fueristech.com — for corrections, feature requests, school or community use, or anything else.