Dear June and friends,

you are right about the case endings:
+e, +mhi, +smi.m for singular
+esu for plural
These endings as you will learn later in the book is for maculine and
neuter nouns ending with +a only. But that's ok for now.

'Sattamii' is 'seventh' in english. It refers to the 7th case. You
see, back in the early days, the pali grammarians did not come up
with specific names for the cases, such as nominative, accusative,
locative, etc. They simply call the cases 1st, 2nd, 3rd,...

Hopes that help.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, june_tg wrote:
I am on Lesson 5, and am having a bit of a trouble understanding "The
Cases in Pali" part. For example, why is "sattamii" which means "7th"
locative? I thought the ends are just "e, mhi, smi.m" for singular
locative, and "esu" for plural locative...