thanks very much, yong peng. i will take a look at the pali primer you
suggested too, later.

regards
june

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <ypong001@...> wrote:
> 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...