uses of cases Flashcards
use of nominative
subject of sentence or clauses
complement eg. this girl is MY SISTER
uses of vocative
direct adress
uses of accusative
direct object in sentence or clause yet note eg. poor me = me miserum
motion through preposition eg. to italy = Ad Italiam/Romam
time expressions - how long
indirect statement, subject of infinitive
of respect or part affected
uses of genitive
possession
partitive eg. more food (more of food)
genitive of quality eg. wise of man (man of wisdom)
after certain verbs and adjectives
causa + gerund/gerundive in genitive (for the purpose of sleeping)
uses of dative
indirect object (he gave..to…)
advantage (for…)
after certain verbs and adjectives
possession
agent eg. all the words need to be learnt by us
predicative eg. this book is a source of help to me
uses of ablative
with preposition agent and instrument eg. killed by guard (agent) with sword (instrument) time - at/when comparison, ablative without quam physical description price eg. at/for a big price after certain verbs/adjectives ablative absolute