Collegiate Questions—Intermediate Flashcards
Nouns of action, agency, and feeling govern what use of the genitive, as seen in phrases such as grātia beneficī, fuga malae fortūnae, cāritās pātriae, and amor tuī?
OBJECTIVE GENITIVE
B1: The objective genitive sometimes causes confusion for students because it can easily be mistaken for other uses. For example, what two interpretations can be offered for the phrase, amor Caesaris?
LOVE {TOWARDS / FOR} CAESAR and {LOVE FELT BY CAESAR // CAESAR’S LOVE}
B2: Like nōs, the pronoun vōs has two genitive endings: vestrum and vestrī. Identify which of those forms is used as an objective genitive, then say which use of the genitive the other form appears in.
VESTRĪ IS OBJECTIVE; VESTRUM IS PARTITIVE
What use of the ablative can be found in the following sentence: Signō datō, exercitus ad oppidum appropinquāvit.
ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE
B1: What use of the ablative can be found in the following sentence: Equitēs ventō celerius ad castra celerāvērunt.
COMPARISON
B2: What use of the ablative can be found in the following sentence: Cīvēs scelestum expulērunt, et ille paūlō post sē immolāvit.
DEGREE OF DIFFERENCE
What use of the genitive case can be found in the phrases stātua summae artis and vir magnae sapientiae?
DESCRIPTION
B1: What use of the genitive case can be found in this sentence: hic liber, quem in mensā vidēs, non unīus hominis, sed omnium est?
POSSESSION
B2: What use of the genitive case can be found in phrases like stātua marmoris rārissimī, stella ignis clārissimī, and flūmina vīnī?
MATERIAL
The phrases prodest mihi and litterīs studet show what use of the dative, also found in the phrase mihi crēde?
(DATIVE WITH) SPECIAL VERBS
B1: You see your good friend and greet him by saying “Ō cāre mihi.” What use of the dative case did you use?
(DATIVE WITH) SPECIAL ADJECTIVES [prompt on REFERENCE]
B2: What use of the dative case is exemplified by the sentence tuās rēs tibi retinē?
(DATIVE OF) REFERENCE / ADVANTAGE