Navigating Pali Studies

Where to go from here...

This blog contains much information for those wishing to learn the Pāli language. To help you find your way around, here's a list of quick jump links: Mechanics: Navigating the Sutta Pitaka
Pali Alphabet & using the PED Dictionary
Entering Diacritics
5 ways to identify an inflectional suffix Grammar:
Nouns: Noun Cases & Declension
Identifying the Subject of a sentence
Noun Attributes: Adjectives, apposition, & complements
Adjectives: Comparatives & Superlatives
The Genitive: Getting possessive!
Pronouns: substitutes for other nouns
Relative clauses & pronouns
What is the Passive Voice
Participles & Gerundives
Participles & Absolute clauses
Verbals: Infinitives & Absolutives
Clauses & Conjunctions
What is an adverb?
Dissecting Compound Words
Overview of Noun cases
Full Guide to Noun Declension Verbs: Verbs, Simple Present tense
Moods & the Future
The Past or Aorist tense
Secondary verb derivations
Derivation of Participles
Pali Adjectival Suffixes
Tools: Velthuis Diacritics converter & Pali Dictionary Lookup Tool
Sutta Number to PTS reference converter
With these under your belt you will probably be keen to get on and try some dictionary look up translation of the Nikāyas, I recommend starting with the Saṁyutta Nikāya or Aṅguttara Nikāya as the grammar is fairly straightforward and both show the same sentence pattern repeatedly. You can see my own attempt at Pāli Translation here.