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Dual verbs

 A unique feature of Sanskrit language is dual verb.  In most other languages verb can be singular - indicating that subject is one person/single or it can be plural - indicating a subject which is multiple - more than one. e.g. She eats her meal. - eats is a singular verb  They eat their meal. - eat is plural verb (In English the verbs in singular and plural are mostly same - except for third person) But in Sanskrit, the verb is different for one, two and more than two. So the verbs are singular, dual and plural.  Ram and Shyam both eat their meal. - this is dual रामः शामः च भोजनानि खादत : |      खादतः is dual verb  So our table of verb conjugation will have 9 entries - 3 for first person, 3 for second person and 3 for third person.  Now let us look at the verb forms for गम् (to go) verb in present tense. एक वचन द्वि वचन  बहु वचन   प्रथम पुरुष गच्छति गच्छतः गच्छन्ति स: गृहं गच्छति |  तौ गच्छत:|  बालिका: गच्छन्ति...