Re: Pali Day by Day - Series B - [B001]

From: Ong Yong Peng
Message: 2154
Date: 2003-03-19

Dear Dimitry and friends,

thanks for the info.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry A. Ivakhnenko wrote:
> OYP> can I say, for the verse below, aha.m is dropped off to comply
> OYP> metrical rules in Pali, or is it common even in prose? What
about in
> OYP> other languages with verb conjugations similar or close to
Pali?
>
> In Ukrainian such use is quite allowable, though mostly in those
> contexts when the agent of the action is too obvious or has been
> indicated in previous sentences, and also in conversations and
verses.
>
> In Pali such usage occurs even more often.

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