Nouns
Vedic 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.
In this article nouns are divided into five declensions. The declension which a noun belongs to is determined largely by form.
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