2012 Regional Latin II Grammar

Question 1

TU: Translate the prepositional phrase in the following sentence into Latin: “Without your help, I would have been lost.”
B1: Translate the prepositional phase in this sentence into Latin: “The man walked and ran for twenty hours.”
B2: Now translate the prepositional phrase in this sentence into Latin: “I received a donkey for a great amount.”

Answer 1

Answer: SINE (ABSQUE) TUŌ AUXILIŌ
Answer: VIGINTI HORĀS
Answer: MAGNI

Question 2

TU: How do you say “easily” in Latin?
B1: Change facile to the corresponding comparative.
B2: Now, change facilius to the corresponding superlative.

Answer 2

Answer: FACILE
Answer: FACILIUS
Answer: FACILLIME

Question 3

TU: For the verb terreo, give the first person plural, imperfect, passive indicative.
B1: Change terrebamur to the future perfect tense
B2: Change territi erimus to the active voice.

Answer 3

Answer: TERREBAMUR
Answer: TERRITI ERIMUS
Answer: TIMUERITIS

Question 4

What type of verbs are vescor, fungor, arbitror, vereor, and morior?
B1: What case do the deponent verbs fungor, furor and potior take?
B2: Using two deponent verbs, say in Latin: The children think that monster had taken hold of their friends.

Answer 4

Answer: DEPONENT VERBS
Answer: ABLATIVE
Answer: LIBERI ARBITRANTUR MONSTRUM AMICĪS POTIRI.

Question 5

Give the dative singular of the Latin phrase alius bonus agricola.
B1: Change alii bono agricolae to the genitive plural.
B2: Now give the genitive singular of the Latin phrase meaning “one big sailor.”

Answer 5

Answer: ALII BONO AGRICOLAE
Answer: ALIORUM BONORUM AGRICOLARUM
Answer: UNIUS MAGNI NAUTAE

Question 6

Which of the following verb forms, if any, do not belong grammatically: amat, parat, ferat, probat, ovat.
B1: What is the person, number, tense, voice, and mood of ferat?
B2: Change ferat to the indicative.

Answer 6

Answer: FERAT
Answer: THIRD, SINGULAR, PRESENT, ACTIVE, SUBJUNCTIVE
Answer: FERT

Question 7

Translate the subordinate clause in the following sentence into Latin: The sea, whose waves
were fierce, batted our ship.
B1: Now translate the relative clause in this sentence into Latin: The books with which we
learn are great.
B2: Now do the same for this sentence: The man whom I obeyed was my father.

Answer 7

Answer: CUIUS UNDAE SUNT ACRES
Answer: QUIBUS DISCIMUS
Answer: CUĪ PAREBAM/PARUI

Question 8

What use of the genitive case is used with ordinal numbers, comparatives, superlatives, and
adverbs such as parum, nimium and satis?
B1: What use of the genitive case is used with nouns of agency, action or feeling?
B2: What use of the genitive is seen in the Latin phrase flumen decem pedum altitudine?

Answer 8

Answer: PARTITIVE
Answer: OBJECTIVE
Answer: MEASURE

Question 9

Translate the following sentence into English: Puer timidus putavit puellam esse
pulcherrimam.
B1: Now translate this Latin sentence into English: Agricola putavit bovem vorāre herbam.
B2: Now translate this sentence Pater putavit filium futurum esse iratiorem quam filiam.

Answer 9

Answer: THE SHY BOY THINKS THAT THE GIRL IS VERY/MOST BEAUTIFUL
Answer: THE FARMER THOUGHT THAT THE COW ATE/DEVOWERED THE GRASS
Answer: THE FATHER THOUGHT THAT HIS SON WOULD BE ANGRIER THAN HIS DAUGHTER.

Question 10

When recognied by the spotter, perform the following command: pulsā mēnsam
bis.
B1: …Pulsā socium bis.
B2: …Pulsāte, omnēs sociī, ducem bis.

Answer 10

Answer: STUDENT HITS THE DESK TWICE
Answer: STUDENT HITS HIS / HER TEAMMATE TWICE
Answer: ALL TEAMMATES HIT THE CAPTAIN TWICE