GAQ P 101 - 5th February 2012 (Sunday)

• naRmada... NOT namaRda (Pls note !!!)
• Emphasized the importance of the TABLE of DECLENSION of NOUNS
• Next week start actual syllabus
• Today only revision
• upasagga (prefixes) - to be covered in Handout 3
• Nipatas
• Difference between SO (that) and ESO (this), SA and ESA, TAM (that) and ETAM (this)
• Idam -> this
• Yo -> who
• "Yo dhammam passati, so mam passati"
• In Pali, there are no punctuations
• "ti" is the shortened form of "iti"
• "ko ayam" -> who is this?
• "Ayam sisso" -> he is a student
• Ayam is a flexible word
• ESO and AYAM both means "this", but they denote the distance between the speakers. ESO is when they are nearby amd Ayam is when they are very nearby
• There are no articles in Pali
• EXAM =  not likely to get a "a" ending masculine declension of nouns
• 20 marks = 10 marks (declension) + 10 marks (conjugation)
• Adjectives are declinable
• SAHA and SADDHIM both means "with"
• www.metta.lk for all suttas...