Vocab Conundrums
Ablatives and Stuff
Non-Ablative Case Use
Agreement
Verb Tenses and Conjugations
100
Latin nouns and Latin verbs both have special "groups" they belong to. These are the names of those groups.
What are Declensions (Nouns) and Conjugations (Verbs)?
100
These are all the ablative noun endings we know so far.
What is -a(with macron), -o, -is?
100
This case is generally the subject of the sentence.
What is the Nominative Case?
100
This attribute of a noun is unique to the noun itself and must be memorized along with the meaning of the word.
What is the noun's gender?
100
Latin verbs generally have this many principle parts.
What is four?
200
Verbs generally have this many principle parts.
What is four?
200
The Ablative of Means tells us this about something in the sentence.
What is How That Something Was Done?
200
This case is generally the indirect object in a sentence.
What is the Dative Case?
200
In the dictionary, this is the difference between a first and second declension noun.
What is: a first declension noun will end "-a, -ae" in the dictionary entry, while a second declension noun will end "-us, -i"?
200
The present tense can be translated in any of these ways:
What is "am/are/is _______ing" or "______"?
300
This is the difference in Latin between "the road" and "the life".
What is a "t"? (In Latin "via" means "road" while "vita" means "life".)
300
The Ablative of Place where tells you this about something in the sentence.
What is Where The Something Is?
300
This case is generally used to show possession.
What is the Genitive Case?
300
The case of a noun is determined by this part of the noun.
What is the noun's ending?
300
The future tense is generally translated this way.
What is "will _______"?
400
This is the difference between "paro" and "porto".
What is: "paro" comes from "paro, parare, paravi, paratus" (to prepare, get ready) while "porto" comes from "porto, portare, portavi, portatus" (to carry).
400
This ablative construction consists of merely the ablative noun by itself in the sentence.
What is "Ablative of Means"?
400
The same case that is the subject of the sentence can also be used for this use.
What is the Predicate Nominative?
400
Adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify in these ways.
What is case, number and gender?
400
Both the future tense and the present tense can be conjugated (created) in Latin by removing the -re from this principle part to find the stem of the verb.
What is the second principle part?
500
These are the differences between the words "servos" and "servas".
What is: the -os ending on "servos" is an accusative plural noun ending ("the slaves) while the -as ending on "servas" is the second person singular verb form ("you save")?
500
Ablative of Place Where requires this special little word in its construction, one which ironically means the same thing in Latin and in English.
What is "in"?
500
This case is generally the direct object in a sentence.
What is the Accusative Case?
500
The main verb of the sentence must agree with the subject of that sentence in this way.
What is number (sg. or pl.)?
500
These are the personal endings of Latin verbs (Name them all in order).
What are: -o, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt?
M
e
n
u