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Watch the case ending fall away

Sandhi welds sounds. A compound does something else first — the case ending on the first word simply vanishes, and two words stand as one. Drag them together and feel it happen, case by case.

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Nothing else changed — the stem simply ends in a vowel or safe consonant, so dropping the case was the whole story.

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Which case dissolved into this compound?

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All eight of these compounds are tatpuruṣa — the first word leans on the second. But which relation, exactly, depends on which of six cases is hiding inside. That case is what the drag just erased.

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A compound is not a phrase said fast — it is a phrase whose case has been let go. ॐ