Lesson 2: Grammar Review Flashcards
Give the five vowel letters and their long sounds in Latin.
a, e, i, o, u
/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/
Give two Latin words that have the long sound of the five vowels.
glória Jesu
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are hard before
a, o, u, consonants
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are soft before
e, i, ae, oe
In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of
/k/
Soft c has the sound of ___ in English and ___ in Latin.
/s/; /ch/
In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.
/ny/; pugno (I fight), magnus (large)
Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.
antepenult; penult; ultima
The accent is on the ___ unless the ___ is marked.
penult; antepenult
Verb familes are called ___, and noun families are called ___.
conjugations; declensions
How many declensions are there? Name them.
five; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
Give the four attributes of nouns.
declension, gender, number, and case
The three genders are ___.
masculine, feminine, neuter
Nouns that name male or female persons or animals have ___ gender. Give three English examples.
natural; sister, brother, father, queen, king, uncle, etc.
Nouns that name non-living things have ___ gender.
grammatical
To what does the case of a noun refer?
the job (function) of a noun in a sentence
Name the cases in order.
nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative
What is the subject case?
nominative
