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Word Endings · शब्दरूपाणि
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You already know these tails
रामः, रामम्, रामेण, रामस्य — you have heard every one of these in a sentence already. Here they stand together for the first time, so the ear can see the shape it has been carrying. Three patterns cover most of the language.
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Where you have met it — one of each, in the wild
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Chant it, don’t study it. Sanskrit schools learn these by singing straight down each column — रामः रामौ रामाः, रामम् रामौ रामान् — until the tune, not the table, holds the endings. Press the chant button, join in, and let the meaning follow later.
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Which form says it?
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Three patterns, twenty-four forms each — and they repeat across thousands of words. This is the whole trick of Sanskrit nouns.