NOUNS: A REVIEW OF WHAT WE KNOW
In Latin, nouns change their _____________ to indicate how they are being used in a _______________.
There are five (six) ____________________________ for nouns to identify how they are being used in sentences.
1 st Declension FEMININE Case Endings: 2 nd Declension MASCULINE Case Endings:
singular plural singular plural
Nominative _________ _________ Nominative _________ _________
Genitive
Dative
_________
_________
Accusative _________
Ablative _________
_________
_________
_________
_________
Genitive
Dative
_________
_________
Accusative _________
Ablative _________
NOMINATIVE CASE:
used to indicate _________________________ in a Latin sentence
_________
_________
_________
_________
used to indicate predicate nominative after a _______________ verb like est, sunt, erat, erant.
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GENITIVE CASE:
used to indicate ______________ in a Latin sentence
(Remember…there is no word for “of” in Latin, nor is there any type of possession punctuation like an apostrophe.)
used to complete the meaning of some nouns in a Latin sentence copia numerus
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DATIVE CASE:
used to indicate _______________ _________________ in a Latin sentence; often after verbs like to
give, offer, show, tell, point out, entrust, etc.
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ACCUSATIVE CASE:
used to indicate __________________ _____________________ in a Latin sentence
used after certain prepositions like ______ (to, toward, near)
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ABLATIVE CASE:
used after certain prepositions
______ (in, on) (PLACE WHERE)
______ (away from) (PLACE FROM WHICH)
______ (down from, about)
______ (out from)
used to express the ____________ by which something was done in a Latin sentence
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VERBS: A REVIEW OF WHAT WE KNOW
In Latin, VERBS change their ending to indicate their ______________, their ______________, and their
_____________________.
Latin verbs belong to _________________________, based on the vowel before the -re in the infinitive.
-āre verbs are _______ conjugation; -ēre verbs are _______ conjugation
PRESENT TENSE
How do you form this tense? 1. take the _____________________________
2. drop the ____________ (called the present stem)
3. add the _____________________________
What are the 6 personal LATIN verb endings of the PRESENT tense?
Singular
1 st person _____________
2 nd person
3 rd person
_____________
_____________
Plural
______________
______________
______________
Identify a verb from each conjugation and practice writing their present tense forms:
1 st Conjugation Present Tense Verb: 2 nd Conjugation Present Tense Verb:
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FUTURE TENSE
How do you form this tense?
What are the 6 personal LATIN verb endings of the FUTURE tense?
1 st person
2 nd person
Singular
_____________
_____________
1. take the _____________________________
2. drop the ____________ (called the present stem)
3. add the _____________________________
Plural
______________
______________
3 rd person _____________ ______________
Identify a verb from each conjugation and practice writing their present tense forms:
1 st Conjugation Present Tense Verb: 2 nd Conjugation Present Tense Verb:
PERFECT TENSE
How do you form this tense? 1. take the _____________________________
2. drop the ____________ (called the perfect stem)
3. add the _____________________________
What are the 6 personal LATIN verb endings of the PERFECT tense?
1 st person
2 nd person
3 rd person
Singular
_____________
_____________
_____________
Plural
______________
______________
______________
Identify a verb from each conjugation and practice writing their present tense forms:
1 st Conjugation Present Tense Verb: 2 nd Conjugation Present Tense Verb:
Translating the perfect tense : ---ed, have/has ---ed, and did --- are all acceptable translations
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ADJECTIVES: A REVIEW OF WHAT WE KNOW
In Latin, adjectives change their endings to agree with the nouns they modify in
_______________________, ______________________, and _______________________.
This usually, but not always, means that the noun and adjective will have the same ending.
(**same as nouns)
FEMININE Adjective Endings:
singular
Nominative _________
Genitive
Dative
_________
_________
Accusative _________
Ablative _________ plural
_________
_________
_________
_________
_________
MASCULINE Adjective Endings:
Genitive
Dative
Accusative _________
Ablative _________
Decline the following 1 st declension noun & adjective.
singular
Nominative _________
_________
_________ plural
_________
_________
_________
_________
_________ familia, familiae, f. magnus, magna, magnum
Singular
“large family”
Plural
NOM ______________________________ ______________________________
GEN
DAT
ACC
GEN
DAT
ACC
ABL
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
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ABL ______________________________ ______________________________
Decline the following 2 nd declension noun & adjective. equus, equi, m. malus, mala, malum
Singular
“bad horse”
Plural
NOM
GEN
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
DAT
ACC
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
ABL ______________________________ ______________________________
Decline the following 1 st declension noun & adjective. ***WILL HAVE DIFFERENT ENDINGS*** nauta, nautae, m. bonus, bona, bonum
Singular
“good sailor”
Plural
NOM ______________________________ ______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
______________________________
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