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Doerless
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An apit that replaces anything but liT and soft liG is Git by sArvadhAtukamapit.
An apit that replaces liT is kit by asaMyogAlliTkit.
All flat liG affixes are Git by yAsuT.
All hard liG affixes are Git by either yAsuT or sArvadhAtukamapit.
The soft bent liG affixes are usually neither kit nor Git by any rule,
The compounds that start with saha- or sa-, made by rule tenasaheti, are extremely common. They never fail to make my students trip. So a few pieces of advice are in order --
(A)
(B)
Students always make the same mistake: when they hear
Yet, if there are many gods, we must always say
Similarly, when students hear
If you want to be specific and make clear that you mean many gods and with many teachers, you have to say --
or --
And if you want to make clear that there is only one teacher, say --
Now, some students ask: "why should I ever say
All verbs in Sanskrit can be used either personally (expressing the doer), like here --
or impersonally, without expressing the doer --
It is extremely common to use this
For instance, if I'm alone at home and you come from the beach, and I ask you
This can be very perplexing until you get used to it.
It is even more perplexing when the loT tense is used impersonally. These are four commands that express the doer --
and any of them may (and will often) be replaced with the impersonal command --
This "let the river be gone to" sounds awkward in English, but the original
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In Sanskrit grammar jargon,
In English grammar jargon,
Example of
If you say "iced ink" inside a sentence at normal talking speed, it is likely that you'll end up saying "I stink".
English grammarians say that the pronunciation "I stink" is incorrect and that we should always speak slowly and carefully to avoid it.
English grammarians also say that only the spelling "iced ink" is allowed, no matter how you say it.
Example of
If we make the words
Sanskrit grammarians say that the pronunciation "
Sanskrit custom says that we must always spell