declensions Flashcards
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What is the point of declensions?
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Nouns are divided into groups called declensions - to decline a noun means to list all of its cases
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What is the point of cases?
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Instead of using word order to identify subjects and other elements in a sentence, Latin uses forms, called cases, which provide information about what each noun, pronoun, or adjective is doing in a sentence.
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How to identify the declension of a noun?
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The easiest way to identify the declension of a noun is to look at the genitive singular case ending, which is unique to each declension:
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