Ta..Datives!
Audax Caesar multis militibus nocuit.
Noceo + dative
Terra urbis pulchra est
Possession (Default)
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Dico "ego fratrem amo"
dico me fratrem amare
res: nominative and accusative plural
res
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voce matrem clamante, turba viam cepit.
clamante, Ablative absolute. subject voce/object matrem.
1) with the voice shouting the mother...
2) even thogh/since/when/ if the voice yells mother
mihi nomen est
Dative of possession (sum + 1 dative)
Vestis viri indigna est.
Possession (default)
dices me pulchrum esse
dices "pulcher sum"
senatus: genitive singular and plural
senatus, senatuum
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Spem a populo casam habeo
Casam (perfect passive, NO OBJECT EVER)
Attributive -> subject: spem (object of habeo)
I have the killed by the people hope
Mea mater aes tibi dederat
Indirect object (do)
Multi populorum ad urbem veniunt
Genitive partitive with words like: ( with unus, pars, Mille, multus,nimis, that show a whole)
dicit illam puella multas res habituram esse
usus: dative singular + plural
usui, usibus
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viris bellum gesturis, cives gaudent.
gesturis: ablative (subject viris/object bellum) absolute
1) With the men about to wage war, the citizens rejoice
2) even though/since/when/ if the men will wage war, the citizens rejoice
turpes consules periculo nostrae civitati sunt.
Predicate dative
double dative
1) SUM + 2 DATIVES
2) 1 dative singular of an abstract noun (periculo -> predicate dative)
3) 1 dative of person/people (nostrae civitati -> dative of reference)
Vir parvae virtutis malus est
Genitive of characteristic (noun+adjective in genitive)
dicit "hoc munus mori meo populo fuit"
dicit hoc munus mori meo populo fuisse
munus, muneris (n.) = service, gift
mos, moris (m.) = practice
vultus: ablative singular and plural
vultu and vultibus
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Fortis rex plebi fugere volenti imperavit
volenti: attributive (subject plebi [object dative of imperavit]/ complementary infinitive: fugere)
The strong king ordered the wanting to flee common people
Sapientes Romani virtuti nobis fuerint.
Dative of reference
DOUBLE DATIVE
1) Sum + 2 datives
2) 1 dative singular abstract noun -> virtuti (predicate dative)
3) 1 dative person/people -> nobis (dative of reference)
amor patrui magnus est.
genitive subjective.
Amor can turn into a verb - to love.
Who loves? -> subjective
loves what? -> objective (if the verb has a subject already e.g. Frater habet amorem patrui)
Ille se poetam esse dixerat
fides: genitive singular and plural
fidei and fiderum
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Servo duce, puella illum deum colere debuerat.
Absolute (servo duce): sum doesn't have an infinitive.
1) With the enslaved person being a leader, the girl had owed to worship that god.
2) Even though/since/when/if the enslaved person is the leader, the girl had owed to worship that god.