Week 1 - Grammar

Question 1

What are the Latin noun cases?

Answer 1

Nominative-subject
Genitive - possessive
Dative - indirect object
Accusative - direct object
Ablative - object of the preposition

Question 2

How is each Latin noun case translated?

Answer 2

Nominative - (a/an/the) noun(s)
Genitive - of the noun(s)
Dative - to/for the noun(s)
Accusative - (a/an/the) noun(s)
Ablative - by, with, from the noun(s)

Question 3

How do you tell which declension group a noun belongs to?

Answer 3

Look at the genitive singular ending

Question 4

How do you determine the stem of a Latin noun?

Answer 4

Drop the genitive singular ending

Question 5

What 3 things do you need to know about every Latin noun?

Answer 5

Gender, number, and case

Question 6

What is the genitive singular ending of 1st declension nouns?

Answer 6

-ae

Question 7

What is the gender rule for 1st declension nouns?

Answer 7

All feminine unless it names a dude.
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All nouns naming individual male persons are MASCULINE.

Ex: nauta, ae - sailor - masculine (Sailors in ancient Rome were always, only men.) This is the Natural Gender Rule (NGR).

All others are FEMININE.

Question 8

What are the first declension noun endings?

Answer 8

-a -ae
-ae -ārum
-ae -īs
-am -ās
-ā -īs

Question 9

What is the horizontal line above some Latin vowels called and what is it for?

Answer 9

Macron

It changes the vowel from short to long, and can be important to distinguish between certain cases.