Latin to English
terra, terrae
What is land, or earth?
A noun names this.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
A noun in the nominative case can be used in a sentence two ways.
What are subject and predicate nominative?
To find the subject of a finite verb, we look for a noun in this case.
What is the nominative?
We call this the subject case in English.
What is nominative?
porta, portae
What is gate or door?
All Latin nouns have these four things.
What is gender, number, case, and declension?
Nouns in the genitive case show us this.
What is possession, or the possessor?
A finite verb agrees with it's subject in this.
What is number? (and also person)
We call this the direct object in English.
What is the accusative case?
silva, silvae
What is forest, or woods?
The three genders in Latin are.
What is masculine, feminine, and neuter?
The dative case is used to show us this.
What is the indirect object?
Unlike English, Latin verbs include this.
What is a subject pronoun?
Translate:
He/she/it sees.
What is "Videt."
gloria, gloriae
What is fame or glory?
The two numbers of Latin nouns are.
What are singular and plural?
The accusative case shows us this.
What is the direct object?
Translate:
Vident.
What is "they see"?
Translate:
Slave, servant.
What is "Servus, servi".
laudat
What is "he/she/it praises"?
When we remove the endings from a Latin noun, we find this.
What is the stem, or root?
The ablative case is frequently used to show us this.
What is object of a preposition?
Translate:
Orant.
What is "they pray"?
Translate:
He does not pray.
What is "Non orat."?