Dear Ria,
Op 25-jan-2009, om 16:08 heeft grasje het volgende geschreven:

> 14. The monkey plays with a dog on the rock.
> vaanaro / kii.lati / sunakhena saddhi.m / paasaa.nasmaa
> Vaanaro sunakhena saddhi.m paasaa.nasmaa kii.lati.
>
> I translated it as:
> Vaanaro sunakhena saddhi.m paasaa.nasmi.m kii.lati.
>
> Why is the ablative used for the "rock" in the answer and not the
> locative?

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N: a possibility is the following: an ablative is also used to denote
the point from where an action begins: from. The monkeys were already
on the rock and started to play from there with a dog. Just a
possibility.
Thanks for the link, it would be nice if it could be brought to our
home page.
Nina.



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