Sanskrit Nouns

Sanskrit Nouns

Sanskrit is a highly inflected language with three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and three numbers (singular, plural, dual). It has eight cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, and locative.

Nouns are grouped into "declensions", which are sets of nouns that form their cases in a similar manner. In this article they are divided into five declensions. The declension to which a noun belongs is determined largely by form.

Read more about Sanskrit Nouns:  Cases, Basic Noun and Adjective Declension, A-stems, I- and U-stems, Long-vowel Stems, ṛ-stems, Numerals, See Also

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