• Learn how to form desiderative verbs, nouns, and adjectives from a given verbal root.
• Learn the forms of the distal demonstrative pronoun/adjective adáḥ.
• Familiarize yourself with adpositional compounds (avyayībhāvaḥ).

1. Desiderative forms

Use a desiderative form (either a verb or an adjective) to translate the following short sentences. Consult the vocabulary list if you need to and if you need to consult Whitney’s Roots to see the form of the desiderative.

1. I am hungry.
2. You are thirsty.
3. They were obedient.
4. He wants to be free. (muc can be used in the intransitive sense of “be free” rather than transitive “free” here.)
5. What do you want to know?
6. I wanted to determine [it].
7. The king wanted to conquer.
8. She might want to sleep.
9. The riverbank is about to fall. [Lit. “wants to fall.”]
10. They [du.] don’t want to give.
11. He wants to create a poem.
12. What do you want to take?
13. They are just (tāvat) about to begin. [lit. “want to begin.”]
14. Do you [pl.] want to do it?
15. She wants to see her.
16. They [pl.] want to kill us.
17. We [du.] wanted to grab it.
18. She wanted to stand up.
19. I want to take a walk.
20. What do you [pl.] mean?