Latin Vocabulary
Food
Cibus
translate: Scholae magnae sunt.
The schools are big.
what is the stem of servus?
serv
What is a transitive verb?
You can ask the question what? after a transitive verb.
The frog loves what?
Transitive has the word trans = across in it.
A noun that does the action in a sentence is called the _____.
subject
road;way
Via
translate: Taurus malus est.
The bull is bad.
what is the stem of malus?
mal
What is an intransitive verb?
You may want to ask the question where? or how? after this but you do not need a what to complete it.
The frog jumps.
True or False: In foreign languages, the adjective changes and becomes plural to agree with the plural noun.
True
loves
amat
translate: Pueri parvi sunt.
The boys are small.
What is the stem of schola?
schol
Intransitive or transitive?
The girl is skating along the sidewalk.
Intransitive
Where is the adjective placed in foreign languages?
after the noun
What is amica and amicus?
amica is female friend and amicus is male friend
Translate: Via lata est longa.
The wide road is long.
Give me two derivatives of AQUA
aquamarine
aquasol
aquarium
etc
Intransitive or transitive?
When geese fly south for the winter, they fly in a V formation.
Intransitive
Plural or singular? Amicae bonae sunt.
plural
What is cibus, femina, and latus/lata?
food, woman, and wide
When we translate a Latin sentence into English, what words do we add to make it sound better?
Definite and indefinite articles (the, a, an)
What two requirements must a derivative satisfy?
It must have the stem of the original word somewhere in it and it must have something to do with the meaning of the original word.
Give me a transitive sentence.
can vary
The hungry monkey is holding a banana.
Is this sentence intransitive or transitive? Tell me what each part is (subject, verb, object/prepositional phrase)
transitive
subj: hungry monkey
verb: holding
object: banana