Case Use
Subject
What is Nominative?
Nominative singular
femina, -ae, f.
What is femina?
amat
What is "he loves?"
ad Italiam
What is "to Italy?"
The common Latin abbreviation P.S. stands for this.
What is Post Scriptum?
Direct Object
What is Accusative?
Genitive Plural
bellum, -i, n.
What is bellorum?
pugnavisti
What is "you fought?"
In Gallia
What is "in Gaul"?
The english words domineering, dominant and dominion all derive from the Latin word that means this.
What is lord or master?
Possession
What is Genitive?
Dative plural
puella, -ae, f.
What is puellas?
dederunt
What is "They gave?"
sine pecunia
What is "Without money?"
Ad astra per aspera and Labor vincit omnia are Latin phrases that encourage this.
What is hard work?
Means
What is Ablative?
ablative singular
puer, pueri, m.
ambulabam
What is "I was walking?"
What is "out of the farmhouse?"
Who is Mars?
Indirect Object
What is Dative?
gladius, -i, m.
What is gladii?
vocabunt
gladio
What is "by/with a sword?"
What destroyed the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae?
What is Mt. Vesuvius?