Educas GCSE Grammar

Question 1

What is a case?

Answer 1

A case is how we change nouns based on how they act in the sentence.

Question 2

What cases do we learn at Latin GCSE?

Answer 2

• Nominative
• Accusative
• Genitive
• Dative
• Ablative

Question 3

What does the nominative mean?

Answer 3

The nominative does the action in a sentence.

e.g SERVUS cenam consumat.
The SLAVE eats the dinner.

Question 4

What does the accusative mean?

Answer 4

The accusative receives the action in a sentence.
It goes after some prepositions, normally conveying motion TOWARDS something (ad + acc = towards, in + acc = into)

e.g Servus CENAM consumat.
The slave eats the DINNER.

Question 5

What does the genitive mean?

Answer 5

• Shows possession
• Means “of”

e.g cena SERVI
the dinner OF THE SLAVE

Question 6

What does the dative mean?

Answer 6

• The dative means “to” or “for”
• Some verbs, like “impero” always take the dative

e.g “cenam SERVO facio”
I make dinner FOR THE SLAVE

Question 7

What does the ablative mean?

Answer 7

• ## By, with, from, in, at, on