[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit perfect first person
Harry Spier
vasishtha.spier at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 20:14:23 UTC 2025
George Hart said:
> . . ., the perfect tense is supposed to be used for acts one has not
> witnessed. Obviously, this makes the use of the first person perfect
> problematic.
>
Does that mean in sanskrit you can use the perfect sense to say: "I did
not witness the battle yesterday". but you can't to say "I witnessed the
battle yesterday" ?
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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