Cases Flashcards

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Nominative

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Job : subject of the verb (with the verb ‘to be’)

Servus laborat- The slave is working

Marcus est servus - Marcus is a slave.

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VOCATIVE

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Job - person being spoken to

Examples

serve, quid facis ? Slave, what are you doing?

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ACCUSATIVE

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Job - object of the action

Examples-

servum punio - I am punishing the slave

ad servum currit - He is running towards the slave

I have a dog

  • The word “have” is doing the owning*
  • The word “dog” is getting owned*
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GENETIVE

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Job - of

Examples

dominus servi est felix. - the master of the slave is happy

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DATIVE

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Job - to, for

examples

pecuniam servo dat - He gives money to the slave

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ABLATIVE

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job - by, with, from

Examples

puerum gladio vulnerat - he wounds the boy with his sword

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