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Ablative

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A case with the basic meanings of “by”, “with”, “from”, “at”, “in” or “on”
Some prepositions take the ablative

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Accusative

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The usual case of a direct object; many prepositions take the accusative

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Adverb

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A word that describes or changes the meaning of a verb, an adjective or another adverb: he walks slowly = lentē ambulat.

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Active

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The form of a verb used when the subject of the sentence is the doer of the action: we saw= uīdimus.

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Adjective

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A word describing a noun, with which it agrees in gender and number: a happy girl = puella laeta.

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Agree

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are in the same case and number as

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Antecedent

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is the noun or pronoun to which a relative pronoun refers back

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Aorist tense

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the tense of a verb that refers to something that happened in the past: I did this = hoc fēcī. (Compare the perfect tense, in which the word “have” or “has” is used in English

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