Pali for New Learners: Book 1, How to say it

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A reader-friendly, comprehensive Pāli primer. This release is for proof-reading purpose. For new version, see http://paliplatform.blogspot.com. Preface Contents List of Tables Abbreviations Critical Introduction to Pali Did the Buddha speak Pali? How reliable is the Pali canon? Why study Pali then? Nuts and Bolts Introduction to Pali Letters (There is) a book Declension of Nominative Case (There is) a big book Introduction to Adjective This (is) a book Demonstrative Pronouns It (is) a book Personal Pronouns There is a book Verb to Be I have a book Declension of Genitive Case My daughter is wise Irregular Nouns I go to school Conjugation of Present Tense Declension of Accusative Case I go to school from home Declension of Ablative Case I go to school by bus Declension of Instrumental Case I go to school for knowledge Declension of Dative Case I go to school in town Declension of Locative Case Boy, who are you? Declension of Vocative Case Interrogative Pronoun I go where you go Correlative Sentences I and you do not go to school Introduction to Indeclinables You are the best Adjective Comparison I went to school Introduction to Past Tense I will go to school Future Tense Go to school, boys Imperative Mood You should go to school Optative Mood If you go to school, you will be wise Conditional Mood All I have are four books Miscellaneous Pronouns There are 7.8 billion people Introduction to Numerals Cardinal Numbers Ordinal Numbers We always walk from home to school here Suffixed Indeclinables Are you going home? More about Questioning I read a book slowly Introduction to Adverb Repetition Even though this book is difficult Concessive Clauses Going to town, I buy you a book Introduction to Present Participle Having gone to town, I bought you a book Introduction to Past Participle Introduction to Absolutive A book is read by me Introduction to Passive Voice Using Kita in Passive Voice I have you give me a book Introduction to Causatives Using Kita in Causatives Now, I can speak Pali Introduction to Infinitive I say ``Pali is not so difficult'' Direct and Indirect Speech Some Minor Matters Verb Classes Summarized Present Tense (Vattamana) Imperative Mood (Pañcami) Optative Mood (Sattami) Perfect Tense (Parokkha) Imperfect Tense (Hiyyattani) Aorist Tense (Ajjatani) Future Tense (Bhavissanti) Conditional Mood (Kalatipatti) Principle of Verb Formation Active Verb Forms Causative Verb Forms Passive Verb Forms Reduplication Cases Summarized Introduction to Karaka Kattukaraka Kammakaraka Karanakaraka Sampadanakaraka Apadanakaraka Okasakaraka Nominal Vibhatti Usage The First Vibhatti (Nom. & Voc.) The Second Vibhatti (Acc.) The Third Vibhatti (Ins.) The Fourth Vibhatti (Dat.) The Fifth Vibhatti (Abl.) The Sixth Vibhatti (Gen.) The Seventh Vibhatti (Loc.) Deviations (Vipallasa) Conversations First Meeting With a Schoolboy Between Two Farmers Between Two Merchants With a Person from Burma Does your dog bite? Pets In the Woods Notes on Neologism Introduction to Traditional Grammar Books Declensional paradigms Regular Masculine Nouns Regular Feminine Nouns Regular Neuter Nouns Irregular Nouns Pronouns Verbal conjugations Verbal Vibhatti Operation of Vibhatti Irregular Verb Forms Sandhi (Word Joining) Upasagga (Prefixes) Nipata (Particles) Samasa (Compounds) Kita (Primary Derivation) Taddhita (Secondary Derivation) List of Paccayas List of Roots Vocabulary Nouns Adjectives Verbs Answer Keys Introduction to PaliPlatform Bibliography About the Author Colophon