Semester Review: Honors Latin 2 Study Notes

Semester Review Honors Latin 2

What’s Covered?

  • LNM grammar, vocabulary: Chapters 1-13.
  • Author biographies/background/readings: Chapters 10-13 (5).
  • Weekly vocabulary: 1-5 (5).
  • Classical Mythology and More: Chapters 6/15 (10).
  • Stories in Latin with questions: Following (25).
  • Memorabile dictu: (4).
    • Know the phrase: The phrase, the author, and the work, as well as any information given about the meaning or use of the phrase.
  • VTL: (6).

Additional Information for Final Exam

  • In addition to the information on the final exam review from Latin I, the following should be noted:
Indirect Statements
  • Indirect statements are introduced by a verb of saying, thinking, knowing, or perceiving.
    • Structure: Verb + accusative case subject + infinitive for the verb.
    • Translate using the magic word “that”.
Verbs
  • All conjugations—both active and passive.
Tenses
  1. Present Tense: All conjugations.
  2. Imperfect Tense: All conjugations.

Conjugation of Sum and Possum

Present Tense

  • Sum:

    • Sum: I am
    • Es: You are
    • Est: He, she, it, or noun is
    • Sumus: We are
    • Estis: You (plural) are
    • Sunt: They are

  • Possum:

    • Possum: I am able
    • Potes: You are able
    • Potest: He, she, it is able
    • Possumus: We are able
    • Potestis: You (plural) are able
    • Possunt: They are able
Imperfect Tense

  • Sum:

    • Eram: I was
    • Eras: You were
    • Erat: He, she, it was
    • Eramus: We were
    • Eratis: You (plural) were
    • Erant: They were

  • Possum:

    • Poteram: I was able
    • Poteras: You were able
    • Poterat: He, she, it was able
    • Poteramus: We were able
    • Poteratis: You (plural) were able
    • Poterant: They were able

Infinitives

  • Infinitives (both active and passive formats).

Imperatives

  • Imperatives and negative imperatives (both singular and plural).

Pronouns

  • Personal pronouns (declensions of the following):

    • First person: ego (I), nos (we)
    • Second person: tu (you), vos (you, plural)
    • Third person: is (he), ea (she), id (it)

  • Possessive Adjectives:

    • meus, mea, meum (my)
    • tuus, tua, tuum (your)
    • noster, nostra, nostrum (our)
    • vester, vestra, vestrum (your, plural)

  • Reflexive Adjective: suus, sua, suum (his/her/its own)

  • Reflexive Pronoun: --- , sui, sibi, se, se

Nouns

  • Same as last year—refer to last year’s review.
  • Declensions:
    • First, second, and third declension nouns.

Adjectives

  • Adjectives:
    • Descriptive and substantive forms of 1st/2nd declension and 3rd declension adjectives.

Cases

  1. Genitive Case:
    • Used for possessive, partitive (a part of something), and objective meanings.
  2. Dative Case:
    • Used for indicating the indirect object.
  3. Accusative Case:
    • Used for direct objects, objects of prepositions, and subjects of indirect statements.
  4. Ablative Case:
    • Used for constructions such as personal agent, means or instrument, and accompaniment (especially with a pronoun—mecum (with me), tecum (with you), nobiscum (with us), vobiscum (with you, plural)).
Enclitics
  • Considerations for –que (and) and –ne (in questions).