Declension
We have seen nouns from how many declesions?
What is Three?
You have learned these two cases so far.
What are nominative and accusative?
Sabina and Faustus live in this neighborhood just outside of Rome.
What is the Subura?
Sabina non dormit.
What is "Sabina is not sleeping"?
Changing the ending of a noun to change its meaning is called declining or declension. This term refers to changing the ending of a verb to change its meaing.
What is conjugating or conjugation?
What is first declension?
This case is used for the subject.
What is the nominative case?
Many people in the Subura lived in these types of homes.
What is an apartment building/insula?
pater intrat forum.
What "father enters the forum"?
A verb with a "t" ending will have this as its subject.
What is he she or it?
Nouns in this declension can be any gender and have a nominative ending that varies.
What is the third declension?
This case is used for the direct object.
What is the accusative case?
If you enter Rome from the north, one of the first parts of the city you enter might be this field where soldiers trained.
What is the Campus Martius/Field of Mars?
Ego canem et infantem video.
What is "I see a dog and a baby"?
A verb with an "o" or "m" as its ending will have this as its subject.
What is I or "ego"?
Nouns in this declension often have -us in the Nominative. They are usually masculine.
What is the second declension?
These are some endings for the __________ case: -a, -us/r, -um, is
What is nominative?
The Curia, Rostra, and Tablinum could be found in this part of the city.
What is the Forum (Romanum)?
What is "the roof tile falls in the street"?
A verb with "s" as its ending will have this as its subject.
What is you or "tu"?
Nouns in this declension end in -em in the accusative when they are masculine or feminine.
What is the third declension?
What is cibum?
In the Forum Romanum, this type of building was used as a halls for meetings, offices, or law courts
What is a basilica?
Gisco murem in cella videt.
What is "Gisco sees a mouse in the room"?
Give the correct forms for "I work, you work, he/she/it works".
What is laboro, laboras, laborat?