Latin Grammar Practice Flashcards

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering Latin grammar concepts from Third, Second, and First Form lessons including moods, cases, parts of speech, and sentence structures.

Indicative mood

Used for statements and questions.

Imperative mood

Used for commands.

Subjunctive mood

Used for potential action, such as opinions, purpose, and wishes.

Participle

A verbal adjective.

Transitive verbs

Verbs that can take a direct object.

Intransitive verbs

Verbs that do not take a direct object.

Vocative case

The case of direct address.

Appositive

A word that follows a noun and renames it.

Demonstrative pronouns

Pronouns that point out persons or things.

Intensive pronoun

Emphasizes another word in the sentence.

Reflexive pronoun

Reflects back on the subject.

Clause

A part of a sentence that has a subject and a verb.

Phrase

A part of a sentence that does not have a subject and a verb.

Independent clause

A clause that can stand alone.

Subordinate clause

A clause that cannot stand alone.

Degrees of comparison

The three levels of adjectives and adverbs: positive, comparative, and superlative.

i-stems

3rd-declension nouns that have a genitive plural in -ium.

Pronoun

Takes the place of a noun.

Antecedent

The noun the pronoun takes the place of.

Preposition

Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence.

Adverb

Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb by answering how, when, where, or to what extent.

Active voice

The subject performs the action of the verb.

Passive voice

The subject receives the action of the verb.

Ablative of agent

A construction used when the action of a passive verb is performed by a living agent, requiring the preposition a/ab.

Ablative of means

A construction used when the action of a verb is performed by a non-living thing; the preposition is omitted.

Conjugations

Verb families.

Declensions

Noun families.

Imperfect (in grammar)

Not finished; used to describe ongoing, repeated, habitual, or interrupted past action.

Principal parts

The forms that provide the stems needed to conjugate a verb in all its tenses.

Perfect (in grammar)

Finished; describes a one-time action completed in the past.

Natural gender

Gender assigned to nouns that name male or female persons or animals.

Grammatical gender

Gender assigned to nouns that name non-living things.

Case

Refers to the job of a noun in a sentence.

Cardinal numbers

Counting numbers.

Ordinal numbers

Numbers which indicate the order of things in a series.

Complement

Something that completes the action of the verb.