Dear George,
Thank you very much.
We could take these part by part, very little at a time, since it is
somewhat tough.
Op 28-dec-2008, om 11:55 heeft gdbedell het volgende geschreven:

> The lists of endings which follow are found in all Paali
> grammars beginning with Kaccaayana, with few variations. In the
> Suttamaalaa, the same lists are given in suttas 896 to 903. The
> classification of these 'conjugations' into tenses, aspects and moods
> is a Western imposition.]
>
> (3) Tattha ti anti, si tha, mi ma, te ante, se vhe, e mhe icc etaa
> vattamaanaa-vibhattiyo naama.
> *These are called the present endings:
> -ti -anti -te -ante
> -si -tha -se -vhe
> -mi -ma -e -mhe
> [The term vattamaanaa means 'presently existing': an appropriate
> choice for the present tense.]

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N: The first is clear, but the second and third I wonder?
Nina.



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