Gdbedell
I learnt in Sri Lanka. I think that In Sri Lanka it must be  ti ,nti, si ,tha .mi, ma, te, nte ,se.....
with metta
sirani

--- On Tue, 30/12/08, gdbedell <gdbedell@...> wrote:

From: gdbedell <gdbedell@...>
Subject: [Pali] Re: Saddaniiti
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 30 December, 2008, 8:13 PM






Sirani,

Thank you for your observation. Though I don't know exactly which grammar
you were taught, traditional or modern, I have seen other analyses which would
give the third person plural endings as -nti and -nte rather than -anti and
-ante. It is easy to see why someone might say that, because not every third
person plural verb form has the vowel a: gacch-anti, but karo-nti or dese-nti,
Aggava.msa will have to account for which vowels appear in which forms, and
it will be interesting to see how he does it (it is not in what I have translated
so far). Particularly whether his analysis differs from other grammars. It is
important to understand that how verb forms are analyzed (what part is the
stem and what part is the ending, and how they combine) is not a given fact
that is either correct or not, but is set up by the grammarian in the context of
the whole set of verb forms in the language. The best analysis is the simplest,
or the one which best shows how the language works.

George B.

--- In Pali@... com, geekiyanage shirani <gsirani@... > wrote:
>
> (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
>  
> I learnt  pali  in Sri Lanka. But My pali knowledge is not good. I don't know that I my
idia is wrong or correct.  I can remember these three is with out "a" like  nti, nte,
> with metta
> Mis Sirani
















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