Challenge A,B, I - Latin Flashcards
- Gender
There are three genders in Latin: masculine, feminine, neuter
- Nouns
Have gender, number, case, and declension
- All nouns meaning individual male persons are masculine
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- All nouns meaning individual female persons are feminine
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- The gender of other nouns must be learned from their declension or from the vocabularies
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- Number
There are two numbers in Latin: singular and plural
- Singular
Speaks of one: via, a road
- Plural
Speaks of more than one: viae, roads
- Case
There are six cases in Latin
- Nominative
The case of the subject
- Genitive
The case of the possessor
- Dative
The case of the indirect object; the ‘to’ or ‘for’ case
- Accusative
The case of the direct object
- Ablative
The ‘by-with-from’ case [Used frequently with prepositions]
- Vocative
The case of the person addressed
- Declension
Declension consists in adding the proper endings to the stem to show the different genders, number, and cases
- Stem
The stem is found by dropping the ending of the genitive singular
vi-ae, stem: vi-
- How to decline a noun
The nominative, genitive, and gender of a noun determine which model it follows. Add the endings of that model to the stem.
- a.) The stem is that part of the word which remains the same in spelling throughout the declension. It gives the meaning of the word. The endings show what the word does in the sentence, whether it is the subject, direct object, indirect object, etc.
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- d.)Names of towns, and domus (home), and rūs (country), have another case - the locative - expressing place where. In singulars of the first and second declensions the locative is like the genitive: Rōmae, at Rome. In all others it is like the ablative: Carthāgine (Carthāgō, Carthāginis), at Carthage. but rūs (country), has rūrī or rūre (in the country).
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