One notable feature of the agglutinative nominal system of Sanskrit is the very common use of nominal compounds (samasa), which may be huge (10+ or even 30+ words), as in some languages such as German. Nominal compounds occur with various structures, but morphologically speaking they are essentially the same: each noun (or adjective) is in its (weak) stem form, with only the final element receiving case inflection.

One notable feature of the agglutinative nominal system of Sanskrit is the very common use of nominal compounds (samasa), which may be huge (10+ or even 30+ words), as in some languages such as German. Nominal compounds occur with various structures, but morphologically speaking they are essentially the same: each noun (or adjective) is in its (weak) stem form, with only the final element receiving case inflection.