Lesson 37

Beginning Prayers:

• शुक्लाम्बरधरं विष्णुम् - shuklaambaradharaM viShNum
• सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यम् - saraswati namastubhyam 
• गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः - gururbrahmaa gururviShNuH 

Topic Summary:

• Revision of cases 
• This and That words
• Who and what words
• Question word 'va'

Home Work:

• Practice all cases by writing examples, sentences if possible
• Usage of words learnt in this lesson, short sentences if possible

Topic Details:

Continuing the reviewing, revisiting the cases is a good idea.  After learning the cases, to put them in sentences, obviously, more vocabulary is needed.  In order to do that, let us see the 'this - that' words.  The proximity of the object decides whether we say 'this' or 'that' instead.  Similarly, in samskRutam, we have two different words for 'this' and 'that'.  But then, in samskRutam, we have 3 different genders for nouns, hence we have 3 different ways of saying each of these words.

This -

एषः (eShaH) - masculine
एषा (eShaa) - feminine
एतत् (etat) - neuter

That - 

सः (saH) - masculine

सा (saa) - feminine

तत् (tat) - neuter

This and that could be answers to questions like what or who.  The words of that would be

कः (kaH) - masculine

का (kaa) - feminine

किम् (kim) - neuter

Another way of asking a question could be by adding a वा (vaa) to the end of the sentence, as in 

एषः कृष्णः वा?  एषा बालिका वा?  एतत् फलं वा? 

(eShaH kRuShNaH vaa?  eShaa baalikaa vaa?  etat phalaM vaa?) 

Until next time, happy practicing.

Ending prayer:

•  ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् - aum pUrNamadaH pUrNamidam

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