Cases

Question 1

What types of cases is there in Latin:

Answer 1

• Nominative
• Accusative
• Vocative
• Genitive
• Dative
• Ablative

Question 2

What is the nominative case?

Answer 2

Subjects - the word is the subject form; complements the verb ‘to be’ (e.g. ‘servus’ and ‘femina’).

Question 3

What is the accusative case?

Answer 3

Direct Objects- The word is in object form (e.g. ‘servum’ and ‘feminam’). As well as, after certain prepositions in Latin. E.g. puer ad feminam currit (The boys runs towards the woman). ‘feminam’ is in accusative case.