Casus (Cases)
The one use of the genitive case.
What is the POSSESSOR?
This tense always, always*, includes the syllable -BA.
* unless you're talking about SUM, but c'mon
What is THE IMPERFECT?
If you know this form/case of the noun, you know what declension it is.
What is the GENITIVE?
Yes, ei, eae, ea may all mean "they," but the kind of "they" each one is goes in this order.
What is masculine, feminine, neuter?
The most common placement for the verb in a Latin sentence.
What is AT THE END?
Hercules' mother.
Who is ALCMENE?
These are the two cases used with prepositions.
What are the ABLATIVE and ACCUSATIVE?
These four letters should tell you the verb is either perfect, pluperfect, or future perfect.
What are V, S, U and X?
This declension is the only one we know with no neuter nouns.
What is the FIRST DECLENSION?
What are GENDER, CASE, and NUMBER?
What is THE ACCUSATIVE?
How Hercules killed his music teacher.
What is WITH A GUITAR?
This is the only case that's required in every sentence.
What is the NOMINATIVE?
In this tense, SUM has Magister's favorite verb stem. Name both.
What are FU- and PERFECT?
These two forms are the same in every declension.
What are ABLATIVE and DATIVE PLURAL?
Of possum, volo, nolo and habeo, this is the only one that cannot trigger an infinitive—at least, not in Classical Latin.
What is habeo?
Give me the words we use to translate the dative case in English.
Hint: there aren't eight of them.
What are TO and FOR?
What is HE PRETENDED TO BE ALCMENE'S HUSBAND?
For adjectives like AMICUS or GRATUS, this case can be used to complete its meaning.
What is the DATIVE?
A verb that ends in -EMUS could be a second conjugation present OR it could be this.
What is a THIRD CONJUGATION FUTURE?*
(Fourth conjugation would end in -IEMUS.)
This is the most common reason for a noun's nominative and accusative forms to be the same.
What is IT IS NEUTER?
If you don't see a nominative noun in a Latin sentence, try looking here for the subject.
What is in the verb?
This is the meaning POT- adds in Latin that it doesn't do in real life.
What is ABLE / CAN / COULD?
Juno sent these creatures after baby Hercules.
What are TWO SNAKES?
A time word (like ANNUS or DIES) and an adjective (like MULTUS or TRES) in the accusative express this idea.
What is DURATION / HOW LONG SOMETHING LASTS?
Don't hesitate! These are the common letters in the tense markers for the pluperfect and future perfect.
What are -ER-?
'Canes fans: In the fourth declension neuter, this is the ending for four out of the five singular cases.
What is -U?
Iam, semper, nimium and intente have this in common.
These are all adverbs?
There are three prepositions we know of that can take the ABLATIVE and ACCUSATIVE cases. One is IN. Name one of the other two.
Hint: they're opposites of each other.
What are SUB or SUPER?