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You wrote:

>
> Venerable Pandita,
> Op 1-dec-2009, om 5:50 heeft ashinpan het volgende geschreven:
>
> > In the sentence "puriso bhatta.m pacati", "puriso" refers to a
> > particular man so that man is the substratum of "puriso". The verb
> > "pacati" refers to the action of that man, so he is also the
> > substratum of "pacati". Then "puriso" and "pacati" have the same
> > substratum.
> ------
> N: I do not understand the word substratum very well. Is it foundation?

In classical Pali grammars, content is treated as the locus (location) of the language that refers to it. So "havin the same substratum" means that both "puriso" and "pacati" have the same location, i.e., the same referent.

> N: Looking at the locative paciiyate and gacchiiyate, is this a
> absolute locative , like in Latin an absolute ablative? It usually is
> in the genetive. But does the extra i not denote a passive?
> When (or because) the man cookes the rice, when (or because) the man
> goes to the village?

Both these words are not nouns but only conjugated passive verbs with 3rd pers. sing. attanopada endings.

with metta

Ven. Pandita