Hi Charles,

I liked your examples. They were basically right as far as the
pronominal inflections are concerned, though not every sentence might
have been idiomatically correct as far as how Pali goes about
expressing things. But that's not important since the point of your
examples was to run through the paradigm, and demonstrate the sense
of 'ka'.

>
>(I'm assuming "ka" should refer to a person, rather than a frog or a
>letter, for example.)

'ka' can be inflected in masculine, feminine and neuter, so it can be
used of frogs, letters, rocks, people, whatever. Just use the correct
gender.

What you might want to do is generalize what you've just gone
through. This may look like a lot of work, but it's actually a way to
simplify things, since the same pattern runs through all the
following examples.

Look at the basic demonstrative pronouns:

sa

masc
s. pl.
so te
ta.m te
tena tehi

etc

fem
sing. pl.
saa taa (taayo)
ta.m taa (taayo)
taaya taahi

etc

neut
s. pl.
ta.m taani
ta.m taani
tena tehi

etc

These inflections work across the board as well for ka (indefinite
pronoun) and ya (relative pronoun). They are also used with a group
of adjectives which take the so called pronominal inflections.
'Sabba' is representative of that group.


ka

masc
s. pl.
ko ke
ka.m ke
kena kehi

etc

fem
sing. pl.
kaa kaa (kaayo)
ka.m kaa (kaayo)
kaaya kaahi

etc

neut
s. pl.
ki.m kaani
ki.m kaani
kena kehi

etc
.....................

ya

masc
s. pl.
yo ye
ya.m ye
yena yehi

etc

fem
sing. pl.
yaa yaa (yaayo)
ya.m yaa (yaayo)
yaaya yaahi

etc

neut
s. pl.
ya.m yaani
ya.m yaani
yena yehi

etc
.....................

sabba

masc
s. pl.
sabbo sabbe
sabba.m sabbe
sabbena sabbehi

etc

fem
sing. pl.
sabbaa sabbaa (sabbaayo)
sabba.m sabbaa (sabbaayo)
sabbaaya sabbaahi

etc

neut
s. pl.
sabba.m sabbaani
sabba.m sabbaani
sabbena sabbehi

etc


best regards,

/Rett