Handwritten Devanāgarī lines on a manuscript page.
Notes on the forms

You learn each pattern through fixed example words. Model forms follow the rules of the cited grammar; attested forms refer to examples given there. Parasmaipada and Ātmanepada are two sets of personal endings. A form’s meaning depends on its context, and the game offers one possible translation. Highlights help you compare forms. In Vedic tables, you practise the filled cells. Links from participles take you to suitable declension tables.

press

su · Present · Subjunctive · Ātmanepada · Vedic
PersonsSingularDualPlural
3rd person
sunavate · सुनवते Model form
sunavātai · सुनवातै Model form
he/she/it may press
—Not attested here
sunavanta · सुनवन्त Model form
they may press
2nd person
sunavase · सुनवसे Model form
you may press
sunavaithe · सुनवैथे Model form
you two may press
—Not attested here
1st person
sunavai · सुनवै Model form
I may press
sunavāvahai · सुनवावहै Model form
we two may press
sunavāmahai · सुनवामहै Model form
we may press

Whitney combines attested personal forms from different roots into a shared inflection pattern. This compilation is labelled as a model. You practise the filled cells.

Source: William Dwight Whitney: Sanskrit Grammar (1889), § 700–701

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