Dear June,

You could try to get hold of the following book:

Johansson, E.A. Rune: Pali Buddhist Texts Explained to the Beginner
($27.95 at Amazon.com)

It starts right away with sutta texts. Introduces a minimum of grammar while
making you familiar with the structure of syntax, basic (sutta) vocabulary
and tricky sandhi rules ;-)

regards,

Lennart

----- Original Message -----
From: "june_tg" <june_tg@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:19 AM
Subject: [Pali] Re: hello everyone


> 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...
>
>
>
>
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