Keywords and Terms

Question 1

What are the six cases in Latin?

Answer 1

Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative and Ablative.

Question 2

What is the Nominative case used for?

Answer 2

Subjects

Question 3

What is the Vocative case used for?

Answer 3

Function for calling or questioning.

Question 4

What is the accusative case used for?

Answer 4

Direct Objects

Question 5

What is the Genitive case used for?

Answer 5

For possession.

Question 6

What is the Dative case used for?

Answer 6

Indirect objects. (For/To)

Question 7

What is the Ablative case used for?

Answer 7

Preposition (With/From)

Question 8

What is the First Declension in Latin and what words use it?

Answer 8

The First Declension is a category of declension that consists mostly of feminine nouns.

Question 9

What is the general rule about the First Declension?

Answer 9

All nouns in the First Declension end in -a (with very few exceptions) and have the same set of endings.

Question 10

What is a preposition?

Answer 10

A word that always comes before a noun or pronoun, such as ‘with’. ‘I came with James’.

Question 10

What is important to know about prepositions in Latin?

Answer 10

The noun or pronoun that the preposition brings in is always in the accusative or ablative.

Question 11

What does ‘per’ mean?

Answer 11

‘Through’ and/or ‘throughout’. Pronouns and nouns come in the Accusative.

Question 12

What does ‘post’ mean?

Answer 12

It means ‘after’, but can also mean ‘behind’. It is used less often spatially. Pronouns and nouns that come after are in the Accusative.

Question 13

What does the preposition ‘Ab’ mean?

Answer 13

‘From’ and/or ‘Away from’. ‘A’ can also mean ‘Ab’. Pronouns and nouns that come after are in the Ablative.

Question 14

What does the preposition ‘Cum’ mean?

Answer 14

‘Together with, With’. Pronouns and nouns are in the Ablative.

Question 15

What does the Preposition ‘De’ mean?

Answer 15

‘Down from; about, concerning’.

Question 16

What does the Preposition ‘E’ or ‘ex’ mean?

Answer 16

‘Out of, from’. Noun and Pronouns are in the Ablative.

Question 17

What is the most common word for ‘and’?

Answer 17

‘Et’.

Question 18

What does it mean when two ‘et’s are in close succession.

Answer 18

The word ‘Both’.

Question 19

What does the word ‘Aut’ mean?

Answer 19

‘Or’

Question 20

What is another word for ‘Or’ in Latin?

Answer 20

‘Vel’.

Question 21

What happens when you have two ‘aut’ in close succession?

Answer 21

It translates to ‘either’.

Question 22

What happens when two ‘nec’ are close together?

Answer 22

It means ‘neither’ or ‘nor’.

Question 23

How do you write a yes or no question in Latin?

Answer 23

You add ‘ne’ at the end of the first word in a sentence. E.g. ‘Amasne Cibum?’

Question 24

What letters won’t up that much in Latin?

Answer 24

‘K’, ‘W’ and ‘Z’.

Question 25

What is a ‘diphthong’?

Answer 25

‘A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.’ - Wikipedia.

Question 26

What sound does ‘AE’ make in Classical Latin?

Answer 26

‘Y’ like in ‘Sky’.

Question 27

What sound does ‘AE’ make in Medieval Latin?

Answer 27

‘ay’ like in ‘Day’.

Question 28

What sound does ‘OE’ make in Classical Latin?

Answer 28

‘oy’ like in ‘Boy’.

Question 29

What sound does ‘AU’ make in Classical Latin?

Answer 29

‘ow’ like in ‘Cow’.

Question 30

Is Latin a S V O language?

Answer 30

It is not. It can be S V O or S O V. It is more concerned with word ending.

Question 31

What are Latin nouns grouped into?

Answer 31

Declensions.

Question 32

How many declensions are there in Latin?

Answer 32

Five

Question 33

What do you do to Latin verbs?

Answer 33

Conjugate them.

Question 34

How many conjugations are in Latin?

Answer 34

Five.

Question 35

What gender are the majority of nouns that belong to the 1st Declension?

Answer 35

Mostly feminine words.

Question 36

How do you form the Imperfect tense?

Answer 36

Stem + BA + Personal Endings.

Question 37

What are the personal endings for the Imperfect Tense?

Answer 37

-m, -s, -t, -mus, -tis and -nt.

Question 38

When translating a sentence, what is the first thing you should do?

Answer 38

Translate the verbs first.

Question 39

What is a Demonstrative Noun?

Answer 39

A demonstrative pronoun is a word used to stand in for a noun. They are used to point to something or someone specific (e.g., ‘this is my sister’). The English demonstrative pronouns arethis, that, these, and those.

Question 40

What pieces of information do you learn when learning a noun?

Answer 40

Nominative Singular + Genitive Singular. In some cases you learn the Nominative Plural + Genitive Plural.