Venerable Bhante Pandita,
thank you for your guidelines, I try again.
with respect,
Nina.
op 28-03-2005 17:08 schreef Ven. Pandita op ashinpan@...:

> I would really like to give comments on my document but the problem is
> that I don't know how to. I have learnt Pali myself, and taught others,
> in a way very different from yours. ...
> 1. All Primary Derivatives can be declined like ordinary nouns. It means
> you must have already digested declensions of Pali nouns before studying
> Primary Derivatives. The typical test to check whether you have really
> mastered Pali nouns is to take an unseen noun and to try to find out its
> possible stems and cases without using a dictionary. For instance:
>
> Let's take the noun "aasiyaa" as the unknown. When we check it using the
> declensions we have studied, its possible stems and cases are:
>
> aasiya (mas.) nom.plu, voc.sing & plu., Abl.sing
> aasiya (neu.) nom.plu, voc.sing & plu, Abl. sing
> aasiyaa (fem.) nom. sing & plu, voc.plu, acc.plur
> aasi (fem.) (ins.abl.dat.gen.loc). sing
> aasii (fem.) (ins.abl.dat.gen.loc). sing
>
> 2. Primary Derivatives are derived from (roots / verbal stems +
> suffixes). Verbal stems used here are not different from those used for
> conjugated forms.It also means that you must have understood the
> conjugated verbs before studying Primary Derivatives.
>