sanskrit-shabd-roop-dhatu-roop-sa-l2 MCQ — 10 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

Statement 1 is correct: the tṛtīyā ekavacana of the akārānta masculine rāma is rāmeṇa ('by Rama'). Statement 2 is wrong: the caturthī ekavacana of the ākārānta feminine latā is latāyai, while latāyāḥ is the pañcamī and ṣaṣṭhī ekavacana. So only statement 1 holds. The designed trap is the latā oblique cluster (latāyai vs latāyāḥ vs latāyām); mapping each ending to its case prevents accepting statement 2.

Explanation

Both A and R are true: the dvitīyā ekavacana of asmad is mām (with the enclitic mā), and asmad is a sarvanāma that declines suppletively (ahaṃ, mām, mayā, mahyam, mat, mama, mayi). However, R explains only the general irregularity, not why the specific accusative singular is mām — that comes from the memorised pronoun paradigm, not from suppletion as a rule. Hence R is true but does not fully explain A.

Explanation

gacchet is the vidhiliṅ prathama-puruṣa ekavacana of gam, the potential/optative lakāra expressing 'should go' (obligation, advice or possibility). The distractors are the same person-number cell in other lakāras: gacchati is laṭ (goes, present), agacchat is laṅ (went, imperfect past) and gacchatu is loṭ (let him go, imperative). The recurring REET trap is lakāra-time mismatch, so naming the time/mood explicitly separates the four cleanly.

Explanation

The subject te is prathama-puruṣa bahuvacana and the sentence is past, so the verb must be laṅ plural. The laṅ prathama-puruṣa bahuvacana of gam is agacchan ('they went'), formed with the past augment a- and the plural ending. agacchat is laṅ but singular (he went), gacchanti is laṭ present (they go), and gacchantu is loṭ imperative (let them go). This item layers the two recurring traps together — lakāra-time mismatch and number disagreement — so both the augment and the plural ending must be checked.

Explanation

The napuṃsaka stem phala differs from the masculine rāma only in prathamā and dvitīyā. Its prathamā bahuvacana is phalāni (also dvitīyā bahuvacana), the diagnostic neuter plural. phalāḥ wrongly transfers the rāma masculine plural; phalam is the singular; phale is the dual. This is the classic neuter-versus-masculine REET contrast: only the first two cases change, the rest follow rāma (phalena, phalāya, etc.).