Learning Journal # 13
One interesting thing I learned this week: Sanskrit doesn't have stress on a syllable/word like English or most European languages have. For example, in English, you will read this sentence with an emphasis on 'you' because it was italicized. But Sanskrit doesn't have that grammatical/linguistic structure. Instead if you want to emphasize something, you must use a separate word, "eva" after the word you want to add emphasis to.
In English, you could use the phrase "that is my horse and "that is my horse" and there would be a different connotation to these sentences. In Sanskrit you have to add additional bits of meaning.
Ex.
naaro viira eva = That man is a hero.
naara eva viira = That man is a hero.
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