संस्कृत विद्याभ्यास

A present tense is action which is happening right now. We call present tense as लट् लकार in Sanskrit.  The sanskrit verbs in a sentence also change according to person and number. For example in English we say "I go" but "He goes". In Sanskrit, the verbs vary much more. For I, it is गच्छामि but for he/she/it the verb form is गच्छति There are 3 persons in Sanskrit language - I/We is first person - called उत्तम पुरुष  in Sanskrit You is second person - called मध्यम पुरुष  He/she/it/they is third person - called प्रथम पुरुष And the numbers are also different here. In Sanskrit, there are 3 numbers एक वचन - singular द्वि वचन - dual (two) बहु वचन​ - plural So let us look at present tense table of गम्  dhatu (go)    एक वचन द्वि वचन  बहु वचन​ प्रथम पुरुष    गच्छति  गच्छत​:  गच्छन्ति मध्यम पुरुष   गच्छसि गच्छथ: गच्छथ उत्तम पुरुष गच्छामि गच्छाव​:  गच्छाम​: In other words,  the word endings for प्रथम प...