Casus (Cases)
The one use of the genitive case.
What is the POSSESSOR?
In a certain verb tense, SUM has Magister's favorite verb stem. What is that tense, and what is that stem?
What are FU- and PERFECT?
If you know this form/case of the noun, you know what declension it is.
What is the GENITIVE?
The most common placement for the verb in a Latin sentence.
What is AT THE END?
Nouns typically have this after their two provided case forms.
What is their GENDER?
mater, pater, frâter, soror
What is family?
These are the two cases used with prepositions.
What are the ABLATIVE AND ACCUSATIVE?
These four letters should tell you the verb is either perfect (also pluperfect, or future perfect).
What are V, S, U AND X?
This declension is the only one we know with no neuter nouns.
What is the FIRST DECLENSION?
Prepositions with motion toward tend to use this case.
What is THE ACCUSATIVE?
Adjectives have multiple principal parts in order to have versions for every form of this property.
What is GENDER?
mîlês, arma, castra, gladius, pugnô
What is war?
This case is the only one that performs a function required in every sentence.
What is the NOMINATIVE?
This tense always, always*, includes the syllable -BA.
* unless you're talking about SUM, but c'mon
What is THE IMPERFECT?
These two forms are the same in every declension.
What are ABLATIVE AND DATIVE PLURAL?
The two words that generally help translate the dative case.
What are TO AND FOR?
The second principal part of a verb is also known by this term.
What is THE INFINITIVE?
cûria, senâtor, imperâtor, prôvincia
What is government?
This is the case of the capitalized noun in the following sentence:
Magister gave HIS BEST STUDENT a cookie.
What is the DATIVE?
What two letters does SUM start with in every form of the IMPERFECT and FUTURE tenses?
What are ER-?
This is the most common reason for a noun's nominative and accusative forms to be the same.
What is IT IS NEUTER?
This is the meaning POT- adds in Latin that it doesn't do in real life.
What is ABLE / CAN / COULD?
Adverbs and conjunctions have this many principal parts?
What is ZERO?
What is construction / parts of a building?
This grammatical function tells us by what means an action was accomplished.
What is the INSTRUMENT?
A verb that ends in -EMUS could be a second conjugation present OR it could be this conjugation and tense.
What is a THIRD CONJUGATION FUTURE?*
(Fourth conjugation would end in -IEMUS.)
This is the standard ending for a third declension noun.
What is NOTHING?
There are two prepositions we know of that can take the ABLATIVE and ACCUSATIVE cases. One is IN. This is the other.
What is SUB?
The four principal parts of a verb mean I VERB, TO VERB, I HAVE VERBED, and this.
What is VERBED?
forum, mercâtor, pecûnia, trâdere
What is business?