Noun Grammar
The case used for the subject of a sentence.
What is the Nominative case?
The verb ending "-t" in the present tense indicates this person and number.
What is third person singular?
The usual position of a main verb in a Latin sentence.
What is at the end of the sentence?
Translate into English: Nauta vocat.
What is "The sailors call?"
Translate into Latin: "The sailor" (used as a subject).
What is Nauta?
The gender of most First declension nouns.
What is feminine?
The verb ending -nt in the present tense indicates this subject pronoun, person, and number.
What is they, third person, and plural?
The typical position of the subject in a standard Latin sentence.
What is at the beginning of the sentence?
Translate into English: Laudant in silva.
What is "They praise in the forest"?
Translate into Latin: "They praise."
What is Laudant?
The case that can be translated into English with the word "of."
What is the genitive case?
The ending used to communicate the second person singular.
What is "-s"?
When both an indirect object (Dative) and a direct object (Accusative) appear in a sentence, this one usually comes first.
What is the indirect object (Dative)?
Translate into English: Nauta portam vastat.
What is "The sailor devastates (lays waste to) the gate"?
Translate into Latin: "The way of the sailor."
What is via nautae?
The endings used for a direct object in the 1st declension.
What are "-am" and "-as?"
When no separate subject noun is written in a Latin sentence, the subject is contained here.
What is in the verb ending?
In Latin word order, a noun in the genitive case usually stands in this position relative to the noun it modifies.
What is after (following) the noun it modifies?
Translate into English: Victoria est in insula.
What is "Victory is in the island"?
Translate into Latin: "The sailors love the gate."
What is Nautae portam amant?
What does PAIN stand for and what does it help us remember?
What is Poeta, Agricola, Incola, Nauta, and the 1st declension masculine nouns?
First conjugation verbs are identified by this ending in their infinitive / principle part form.
What is -are?
The relative position of a Latin preposition to the noun object it governs.
What is immediately before the noun?
Translate into English: Lunam et aquam amamus.
What is "We love the moon and the water?"
Translate into Latin: "Where are they fighting in the forest."
What is Ubi in silva pugnant?