Grammar Rules
The (4) attributes of Latin nouns.
What are gender, number, case, and declension?
These are the gender rules for 4th and 5th declension nouns.
What are: usually masculine, usually feminine?
These tenses are formed on the present stem.
What are: present, imperfect, and future?
These are the 1st/2nd declension adjectives' nominative singular endings.
What are: -us, -a, -um?
Nautae provinciam vident.
What is: "The sailors see the province."?
The gender rules for 1st and 2nd declension nouns.
What are: 1st - feminine (unless naming an individual male person), 2nd - masculine when the nominative singular ends in -us, neuter when the nominative singular ends in -um?
This is how you find the stem of a Latin noun.
What is: drop the ending of the genitive singular?
These tenses are formed on the perfect stem.
What are: perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect?
These are the 3rd declension adjective nominative singular endings.
What are: -is, -e?
Miletes (macron in the final e) in acie (macron on e) erant.
What is: "The soldiers were in the battle line."?
DAILY DOUBLE
The gender rules for 3rd declension nouns.
What are: the common sense rule, ERROR (masculine), SOX (feminine), LANCET (neuter)?
This is the case used for an indirect object.
What is the dative?
This Latin verb tense expresses something that was completed in the past and its ending is the imperfect form of "sum."
What is the pluperfect tense?
The ways a Latin adjective agrees with it's noun.
What are: in gender, number, and case?
Good leaders praise peace.
What is: "Duces boni pacem laudant."?
The rule for the position of an adjective in a Latin sentence.
What is: adjectives of quantity generally precede the noun they modify, and adjectives of quality generally follow the nouns they modify?
This is the dative plural of "terra, terrae."
What is "terris?"
DAILY DOUBLE
The names of the four principle parts of a Latin verb.
What are: the present indicative active, the present infinitive active, the perfect indicative active, and the perfect participle passive?
The ablative singular feminine of "malus, a, um."
What is "mala?" (with macron on final "a")
Servi frumentum in hiberna portabunt.
What is: "The slaves will carry the grain into winter quarters."?
These are the 5 attributes of Latin verbs.
What are: person, number, tense, voice, and mood?
This is the accusative singular form of "res, rei."
What is "rem?"
The fourth principle part of the word incendo, incendere (no macron on the "e".)
What is incensus?
The accusative plural neuter of "gravis, grave."
What is "gravia?"
DAILY DOUBLE
They had kept the faith.
What is: "Fidem servaverant."?