Latin Grammar

nominative

case used to express the subject or predicate nominative

genitive

case used to qualify the noun by expressing possession or association

dative

case used to indicate who/what is affected by/interested in the verb

accusative

case used for direct objects or with prepositions that convey motion toward, into, around, and through

ablative

case used to express seperation (‘from’), association/instrument (‘with’) or location (‘in’, ‘on’ etc.)

ablative of accompaniment

syntax that requires the preposition ‘cum’ (with)

vocative

case used for direct address

dative of reference, dative of indirect object

the two forms of the dative case

intransitive verb

verb with just a subject

copulative verb

verb that equates a subject with a predicate

person, number, tense, voice, mood

the five properties of verbs

indicative, inperative, subjunctive

types of verbal ‘mood‘

simple, progressive, repeated, completed

verbal tense aspects

progressive and repeated

which two aspects are expressed the same in Latin?

person and number

what has to agree with the noun according to subject-verb agreement?

ā

vowel part of the first conjugation

ē

vowel part of the second conjugation

e

vowel part of the third conjugation

ī

vowel part of the fourth conjugation

infix

what is the name for an inflection in the middle of a word?

second (present active infinitive)

from which principle part can we identify a verb’s conjugation and present stem?

first

(principle part) first person singular, present active indicative

second

(principle part) present active infinitive

third

(principle part) first person singular, perfect active indicative

fourth

(principle part) perfect passive participle