Latin 1
Dr. McGay
Nōmen
OLC: Ch. 3 Grammar worksheet, p. 1
1. What does gender mean? Latin has 3 genders; what are they?
2. Which of the following have or may have gender specific endings? Select all that
apply: (A) adjectives (B) nouns (C) verbs (D) adverbs
(E) articles
3. What does the term “declension” mean and to what part(s) of speech does it concern?
4. What does the term “conjugation” mean and to what part(s) of speech does it concern?
5. What does the word “case” mean?
6. Give two examples of Latin cases and what they individually are used for:
7. What gender are 1st declension nouns?
Give two examples of Latin nouns that belong to the first declension + what they mean:
8. What gender are most 2nd declension nouns?
Give 2 examples of Latin nouns that belong to the 2nd declension & end in –us in the nominative
case + what they mean:
Give 2 examples of Latin nouns that belong to the 2nd declension & end in –er in the nominative
case + what they mean:
Latin 1
Dr. McGay
Nōmen
9. Give the requested info in the boxes:
Ending
Gender
Number
-a
Feminine
Singular
OLC: Ch. 3 Grammar worksheet, p. 2
Case
Nominative
Declension #
1st
-am
-us
-er
-um
10. Define what an adjective is:
11. Give 4 English adjectives of quality:
Give 4 English adjectives of quantity:
12. List the 5 adjectives from our vocabulary lists so far & what they mean:
LATIN Adjectives (put –us, -a, -um on end)
ENGLISH Meaning
fessus, fessa, fessum
13. Give the Rule of Adjective-Noun agreement (or in what 3 ways must an adjective agree with the noun
it describes?):
14. Translate into Latin: The tired woman calls the anxious boy and the angry girl into
the small1 cottage. Quintus is not happy because he is not ready.
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small = parvus, parva, parvum