Distant Past Tense : vid and ah

Mar 29, 2018 | Doubling | 0 |

The two roots mentioned in the title are usually used in distant past tense : vid and ah.

Vid

Vid is an irregular verb that is veda in the third person. The endings are similar to the perfect tense and follow the same pattern of vowels. However, this used in the present tense, it means “he knows”, not “he knew”.

Ah

Ah is a normal meaning of perfect tense, however, its indispensable conjugations are absent.

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Introduction of Sanskrit language
Sounds
1. Vowels
  1. Simple Vowels
  2. Compound Vowels (+e)
2. Consonants
  1. Stops and Nasals
  2. Voice and Aspiration
  3. Other Consonants (+e)
  4. Anusvara and Visarga
  5. Combinations
3. Syllables
4. Reading
5. Review
Starting Out
1. Sanskrit Verb
2. Sanskrit Nouns
  1. Nouns Cases (+e)
  2. An Introduction to Sandhi (+e)
  3. Verbless Sentences (+e)
  4. Sanskrit Pronouns(+e)
  5. Case 2: The Object (+e)
  6. Adjectives (+e)
  7. Case 8: Direct Address (+e)
  8. Neuter Nouns (+e)
  9. Case 6: “of” (+e)
  10. The Other Cases (+e)
3. Making Words
4. Uninflected Words
5. Gerunds and “Real” Roots
6. Reading
7. Review
Nouns
1. The PPP
  1. Case 3: “with” (+e)
  2. Passive Verbs (+e)
  3. The Ordinary Future Tense (+e)
  4. The PPP (+e)
  5. Vowel Stems, Part 1 (+e)
2. Other Compounds
3. Three Cases
  1. Verb Bits (+e)
  2. Case 4: “for” (+e)
  3. Case 5: “from” (+e)
  4. Case 7: “in” (+e)
4. Consonant Stems
5. More Pronouns
6. Reading
  1. Panchatantra
  2. Bhagavad Gita
7. Review
Verbs
Odds and Ends
1. Verbs and Participles
  1. Three Missing Endings (+e)
  2. The Recent Past Tense (+e)
  3. The Benedictive (+e)
  4. Perfect Participles (+e)
  5. Separable Verb Prefixes
2. Sounds
  1. vedic acent (+e)
  2. Vedic Accent (+e)
3. Nouns
4. Numbers
5. Reading: The Purusha Sukta

6 References
6.1 Lists
6.1.1 Grammatical Terms
6.1.2 Prefixes
6.1.3 Primary Suffixes
6.1.4 Secondary Suffixes
6.1.5 Vocabulary
6.2 Devanagari
6.2.1 Letters and Vowel Marks
6.2.2 Numbers in Devanagari
6.2.3 Conjunct Consonants
6.2.4 Basic Vedic Devanagari
6.2.5 Old Devanagari
6.3 Nouns
6.3.1 Vowel Nouns
6.3.2 Consonant Nouns
6.3.3 Pronouns
6.4 Verbs
6.4.1 Simple Verb Classes
6.4.2 Complex Verb Classes
6.5 Sandhi
6.5.1 Vowel Sandhi
6.5.2 Internal Consonant Sandhi
6.5.3 External Consonant Sandhi
6.5.4 Visarga Sandhi

Distant Past Tense : vid and ah

Vid

Ah

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