How Do You Decline?
The three genders assigned to all nouns in Latin.
What is Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter.
How to decline an adjective
What is 1. learn the nominative and genitive endings from the vocabulary 2. see from that which model the adjective follows 3. add the declined endings to the stem.
What is
adjectives declined like 1st & second declension (a, us, um)
adjectives declined like 3rd declension (is, e)
"laudo" in English
What is "I praise"
Victoria nautae.
The victory of the sailor.
The singular and plural endings associated with the noun "oppidum".
What is
um, i, o, um, o
a, orum, is, a, is
"Long" declined in Latin, Masculine only.
longus, longi, longo, longum, longo
longi, longorum, longis, longos, longis
"brave" declined in Latin, but not in Neuter.
What is
fortis, fortis, forti, fortem, forti
fortes, fortium, fortibus, fortes, fortibus
The four principal parts of "paro"
paro, parare, paravi, paratus.
Deus mundum videt.
God sees the world.
DAILY DOUBLE
Nominative and Ablative often have the same or similar endings. This is also often true for Dative and Ablative plural endings. How are these endings distinguished when translating?
By understanding what role the ending has in the sentence, and by the use of prepositions (in/on/with/for) and sometimes by placement.
This determines when adjectives precede or follow their nouns.
What is quantity and quality (quantity precedes, quality follows (usually).
The rule for 3rd declension endings, genitive plural.
All adjectives declined like 3rd declension have "ium" in the genitive plural.
The principal part that shows which conjugation a verb belongs to
What is the 2nd principal part/the Present Infinitive Active
Omnes homines boni orant sed homines mali non orant.
All good med pray, but bad men do not pray.
This word, but completely declined in Latin. "Hope".
What is
spes, spei, spei, spem, spe
spes, sperum, spebus, spes, spebus
Amici Christiani sumus.
What is Christiani? (we are CHRISTIAN friends)
Find the adjective: "Nomen Jesu est Sanctum Nomen"
Sanctum "holy"
The three translations in English for Present Indicative Active, using an example verb.
You "do"
You "are doing"
You do "do"!
BONUS
What do you "do"?
You do "not do", You "are not doing"
Christ is the Light of Men because he gave men truth.
Christus Lux Hominum est quod veritatem hominibus dedit.
This is the rule for nouns which have -ium in the Genitive plural.
What is 1. Nouns that have the same number of syllables in the genitive singular as in the nominative singular. 2. Nouns whose stem ends in two consonants.
Fill in the blank:
The Gauls were not like the Romans
"Galli non erant similes BLANK"
...Romanorum (or Romanis)
because "similis, e" is a governing adjective, and the noun is governs takes either GENITIVE or DATIVE.
Fill in the blank:
The Gauls are desirous of war.
"Galli cupidi sunt BLANK"
...belli
because Cupidus, a, um is a governing adjectives, and the noun it governs takes GENITIVE.
Present Indicative Active of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person in singular and plural of the verb "seize", in Latin.
occupo, occupas, occupat
occupamus, occupatis, occupant
You pray for all men, for soldiers and sailors, for leading men and slaves.
hint: "you pray" is plural.
Pro omnibus hominibus, militibus et nautis, principibus et servis oratis.