ICSE Class 6 Sanskrit
Read Devanagari accurately, build a small vocabulary and understand simple sentences from your school reader.
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Read each word aloud, circle the verb and match it to the person or thing doing the action. Practise short singular sentences before changing the number.
Worksheets and practice papers
Read a sentence from left to right
Start by reading aloud. Find the action word, then ask who does it and what is acted on. An ending such as म् can help you spot the object. Try the same routine with one sentence from your school reader.
Worked example
रामः फलम् खादति।
खादति means eats. रामः names the person eating. फलम् means fruit and is the object. The whole sentence means “Rama eats a fruit.”
Reading a short scene
सीता उद्याने अस्ति। सा पुष्पं पश्यति। बालकः जलं पिबति।
Where is Sita?
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उद्याने। She is in the garden.
What does Sita see?
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सा पुष्पं पश्यति। She sees a flower.
Who drinks water?
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बालकः जलं पिबति। The boy drinks water.
Independent practice
Try each question before opening its answer.
Find the verb in बालिका गीतं गायति।
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गायति means “sings”.
Translate रामः जलं पिबति।
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Rama drinks water.
Complete बालिका पुस्तकम् ___। Use पठति or पठन्ति.
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पठति. बालिका is singular.
Write “Sita sees a flower.”
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सीता पुष्पं पश्यति।
Apply what you learned
Read a paragraph from your school reader. Copy two verbs and the people who perform them. Then translate one sentence and check that you included its object.
Quick revision
बालकः पुस्तकम् पठति। बालिका लिखति।
Who reads the book? What does the girl do?
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The boy reads the book. The girl writes. पठति means “reads” and लिखति means “writes”.
बालकः लिखति।
Replace “the boy” with “the girl”.
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बालिका लिखति। The third-person singular verb stays the same.
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