Usually in Pali, words referring to the same thing are in the same case & number . This is especially true of nominative & accusative cases. In this post we're going to look at common examples when two or more nouns occur together in Nominative or Accusative cases. Pali Noun Attributes Most commonly, several nouns occurring in the nominative (& sometimes in accusative) case are probably attributes to a similar substantive noun. (Note: substantive is a loose term meaning something of substance, an entity, which can stand by itself, in distinction to an adjective). Noun attributes describe or qualify a noun. They add a characteristic or specify quality. For instance: a big book a blue book a sad book We've seen this already in our previous example ( SN8.6 ): sāriputt o mahāpaññ o dhammaṃ deseti bhikkhunaṃ Nom Nom Acc Pres, Act Dat/Gen ...
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