Dear Nina and friends,

thanks. Here is an example:

Kumaarii potthaka.m ga.nhitvaa paa.thasaala.m gacchantii bhikkhu.m
passati.
Taking the book and going to school, the girl sees a monk.

Please correct me if I am wrong.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom wrote:

would you give us an example of this?

> Taking it just one step further: the Pali gerunds can also be used
to express an action preceding the action of the main verb of a
clause in a sentence.