Little Black Book

Glossary of Grammatical Terms for Sanskrit Students

McComas Taylor

Ablative case, Accusative case, Active endings, Adjectives, anusvara ं, Aspirated consonants, ātmanepada, avagraha, Bahuvrīhi compound, ca, Case, Compounds, Confusative case, Conjunct consonants, Consonant sandhi, Consonants, Dative case, Demonstrative pronouns, Dual, Dvandva compound, eva and evam, External sandhi, Feminine, Final -m, sandhi rules, First person, Future passive participle, Gender, Generic endings, Genitive case, Gerund, Gerundive, Guṇa, Have, Imperative, Imperfect, in suffix, Indefinite pronouns, Instrumental case, Internal sandhi, Interrogative pronouns, iti, iva, eva, evam, Karmadhāraya compound, Locative case, mant/-vant suffixes, Masculine, Middle endings, na, Neuter, Nominative case, Noun, Nouns, Neuter, Number, Optative, or, Parasmaipada, Participles, Passive constructions, Past active participles, Past passive participles, Perfect, Periphrastic future, Periphrastic perfect, Person, Plural, Possession, Present participles, Pronominal adjectives, Pronouns, ra as conjunct consonant, Reduplication, Relative-corelative constructions, Retroflexed consonants, Root, sa- prefix, Saha, Samāhāra compound, Samprasāraṇa, Sandhi, Sandhi rule for final -m, Second person, Simple future, Singular, Stem, Strength, su- prefix, Tatpuruṣa compound, Third person, tva suffix, Unaspirated consonants, Unvoiced consonants, Upapada compound, vā, vat suffix, Verb classes, Verb endings, Verbal prefixes, Verbs, vinā, Virāma ्, Visarga, Visarga sandhi, Vocative case, Voiced consonants, Vowel sandhi, Vowel strength, Vowels, long, Vowels, short, Vṛddhi, Vṛddhi grade derivatives, Word order