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Sanskrit has analogous structures, but they are not called Sandhi. Sandhi refers specifically to phonetic combinations of adjacent sounds in subsequent words, not a semantic or morphological combination. These phonetic processes are almost completely independent of semantics.

The analogous structures in Sanskrit to the articles German examples are various types of compounds, like tatpurusha, dvandva, etc.



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