Some things that will help you when doing the exercises

Some things that will help you when doing the exercises¶

English has typical SVO word order: Subject Verb Object

Pāli has SOV word order. Subject Object Verb

e.g. English: the man goes to the village

Pāli: naro gāmaṃ gacchati (man village he goes)

There are, of course, numerous exceptions, but this is most common in Pāli prose.

The genitive case always comes before the noun it qualifies.

e.g. the body of the man, the man’s body

manussassa kāyo

The subject of the sentence and the verb must agree in number.

e.g. sakuṇā ākāse uḍḍayanti.