Learn Latin

[mongoose]

For those of you who have seen the Latina thread, here is a way to post there/understand partially what is being said. I will try to put up lessons as often as I can.

[mongoose]

This thread will have three subtitles. They are "vocab" here latin words will be posted with their meanings, "grammar" where latin grammar will posted and "excersises" where Latin excersises will be posted. Stay tuned and if you have trouble message me.

[kchic]

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[mongoose]

Vocab

There are four different parts to learning a Latin noun. You must learn the Nominative, the genitive, the gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter) and the meaning. I will explain more in the grammar section.

agricola, agricolae m. farmer
aqua, aquae f. water
femina, feminae f. woman
fortuna, fortunae f. fortune, chance
Gallia, Galliae f. Gaul
insula, insulae f. island
Italia, Italiae f. Italy
lingua, linguae f. language, tongue
lettera, letterae f. letter(in the singular it means letter of the alphabet, in the plural it means one letter
like one you would write to you friend.)
memoria, memoriae f. memory
natura, naturae f. nature
poeta, poetae . poet
provincia, provinciae f. province
puella, puellae f. girl
silva, silvae f. forest
vita, vitae f. life

est; there is, is
sunt; there are, are

[mongoose]

**Grammar**
The cases in Latin.

Latin is different than most languages because its language does not have just a singular or plural form of a noun. There are seven cases which do different things in a Latin sentence and you will have to learn them well.

Cases	Nominative	Genitive	Dative	Accusative	Ablatice
Singular	puella	puellae	puellae	puellam	puella
Plural	puellae	puellarum	puellis	puellas	puellis

[mongoose]

**Grammar**
Explanation of the cases

The cases as I said are used in many different ways in Latin and depending on what case the noun is in it could be the subject, direct object or whatever. The parts at the end of emboldenated puella, puellae, etc. on the chart, are the endings. They allow you to tell the difference between the cases, singular and plural.

The way to formulate those cases is to find the base of the noun. Then you add the endings, -a, -ae, -ae, -am,
-a. The way to formulate the base is simple. You look to the genitive form of the noun(that's the second form given to you in the vocabulary section) drop the ending, which is the -ae for first declension nouns and add the endings to the base which is what you get after taking off the -ae.

You are learning the first declension. There are four more declensions after this and a lot more memorizing forms. Now, I am only teaching you the first declension. The first declension is all feminine with a few exceptions. The knowledge of what gender the noun is helps you in making verb forms, and knowing what form of the adjective to use.

If you can memorize PAIN you will know all you need to know about which first declension words are masculine and which are feminine.

Poeta(you know this one)
Agricola(you know this one)
Incola(you don't know this one yet)
Nauta(you don't know this one yet either)

Those four words all are masculine even though they're first declension.

[mongoose]

**Grammar**

The usages of the Nominative case.

There are several ways in which to use the nominative case. And you will learn them. There is the subject nominative and the predicate nominative. the subject is the subject of the sentence and the predicate nominaive is the predicate nominative in the sentence.

In the sentence: Gallia est Provincia.

Gaul is a province. Gaul is the subject as all of you know and province is the PN, which is a noun after a linking verb (in Latin the verb to be)

[mongoose]

Excersises
in this excersise you will give the case of Latin nouns. If the excersise say "genitive sing. of Italia" you would write "Italiae" sing. means singular form, pl. means plural form
1. dative sing. agicola
2. ablative pl. aqua
3. accusative sing. lingua
4. genitive pl. poeta
5. nominative pl. memoria
6. ablative sing. silva
7. genitive sing. vita
8. accusative pl. of the word that means "chance"

from know on I will give the English word and you will have to give the correct case of the Latin word with that meaning

9. accusative pl. Gaul
10. genitive pl. Italy
11. ablative sing. girl
12. nominative pl. province
13. genitive sing. letter
14. dative pl. forest
15. dative sing. island

[Masked Duchessa]

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[little duchessa]

Grammar

sum - I'm
es - you are (singular)
est - he/she/it is
sumus - we are
estis - you are (plural)
sunt - they are