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Root Trees · धातुवृक्षाः
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Every word you know grew from a seed
Sanskrit keeps its roots visible. Once you can see the root गम् inside गच्छति, गमनम्, आगच्छति and दुर्गमः, you stop learning words one at a time and start learning them by the dozen. A hundred and ten seeds are planted here, sorted into the ten classes.
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The little hook √ is how grammarians mark a root — read √गम् as “the root gam”. Nothing mathematical about it: it just says this is a seed, not a finished word.
The seed · धातुः
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A root is a seed, but it does not sprout the same way in every family. Sanskrit sorts its roots into ten classes — गणाः — by what happens between the root and the ending in the present tense. Each class is named after its first member, so class 1 is भ्वादि, “भू and the rest”. You never have to memorise this: the ear learns the shape, and the name comes after.
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A hundred and ten seeds sit in this garden, and each holds a family of six or eight more words. This is why Sanskrit gets easier the further in you go.