The Joy of Sanskrit
Week 10. Vocabulary

Week 10. Makkomas-sūtras
10.0 Vowel meets consonant: no change
10.1 A final m always becomes ṃ except before a vowel
or the end of a line
10.2 After sandhi, vowels, ḥ or ṃ never join
10.3 After sandhi, consonants always join
10.4 A virāma in the middle of a sentence means you have
probably made a mistake
10.5 In the sentence X is Y, both X and Y are nominative
10.6 Royce's rule: If a sentence does not have a verb the
verb is 'is'
10.7 Adjectives must agree with nouns in gender, case and
number
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