Latin Language Vocabulary and Grammar Review

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and concepts related to Latin grammar, including noun and verb forms, cases, and superlatives.

Nominative Case

The case used for the subject of a sentence, indicating the noun doing the action.

Accusative Case

The case used for the object of a sentence, indicating the noun receiving the action.

Dative Case

The case indicating an indirect object, often translated as 'to' or 'for'.

Ablative Case

The case indicating means or accompaniment, translated as 'by,' 'with,' or 'from'.

Superlative

A form of an adjective indicating that something is particularly exceptional, often translated as 'most' or with -est suffix in English.

Verb Conjugation

The modification of a verb from its base form to convey different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice.

Preposition

A word indicating the relationship of a noun or pronoun to other words in a sentence, often indicating location or direction.

Regular Verb

A verb that follows standard conjugation patterns.

Irregular Verb

A verb that does not follow regular conjugation patterns.

Declension

The variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective to express different grammatical cases.

Genitive Case

The case indicating possession or relationship, often translated as 'of'.

Locative Case

The case indicating location, often translated as 'in' or 'on'.

Vocative Case

The case used for directly addressing someone or something.

Conjunction

A word that connects clauses or sentences or coordinates words in the same clause.

Modal Verb

A type of auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility.

Transitive Verb

A verb that requires one or more objects.

Intransitive Verb

A verb that does not require any objects.

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb, often indicating manner, time, place, or degree.

Subject

The noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb in a sentence.

Object

The noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb in a sentence.

Interrogative Pronoun

A pronoun used to ask questions, such as who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Demonstrative Pronoun

A pronoun used to point to specific things, such as this, that, these, and those.

Relative Pronoun

A pronoun that introduces a dependent clause and relates it to a noun or pronoun, such as who, whom, whose, which, and that.

Site Concord

The agreement between a subject and a verb in number and person.

Compound Sentence

A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

Complex Sentence

A sentence that contains at least one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

Phrase

A group of words that function as a single unit in a sentence and do not contain both a subject and a verb.

Clause

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it can be independent or dependent.

Active Voice

A sentence structure where the subject performs the action of the verb.

Passive Voice

A sentence structure where the subject receives the action of the verb.