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Welcome to the Latin Classroom. This subject was first given by [Sheona], who should be thanked for the effort she has put into this already. It was later given by [Janouk].
Lesson 4
Here are the words you should learn:
Verbs: dicit = says, terret = scares, mittit = sends, it (irregular) = goes
Nouns: servus = slave, mater = mother, pater = father, avus = grandfather
Other: ab = from, si = if, sine = without, quamquam = although, quoque = also, as well
Grammar:
Nouns
In the previous lessons you've seen that Latin nouns can have a masculine or feminine gender. Apart from this, also exists a third gender: neuter. In the following lessons you'll have to learn neuter nouns as well.
You already know the nominative and accusative of the masculine and feminine gender. In the schedule below you can see these cases, plus the cases in neuter.
Verbs
You've learned that Latin verbs, expressing that the 3rd person (he, she or it) does something, end with a t. (The examples were vocat, videt and audit ->Lesson 3) But of course, not only he does something, but also me and you. The next schedule shows examples of how to say this. These three persons together are called the Singularis in Latin (or singular in English).
As you can see, there are multiple groups of verbs. Whenever you have a Latin verb, you can/should look to which group it belongs. The four groups are called the four conjugations. You have:
First conjugation: This one is characterized by the vowel a and can also be recognized by the -are ending of the present active infinitive. Like: Voco, Vocas, Vocat, which has Vocare as present active infinitive.
Second conjugation: This one is characterized by the vowel e and can also be recognized by the -eo ending of the first person present indicative and the -ere ending of the present active infinitive. Like: Tereo, Terres, Terret, which has Terrere as present active infinitive.
Third conjugation: This one is characterized by the vowels i, e or u. I'll come back on this later. An example is Mitto, Mittis, Mittit.
Fourth conjugation: This one is characterized by the vowel i and can also be recognized by the -ire ending of the present active infinitive. Like: Audio, Audis, Audit, which has Audire as present active infinitive.
Interesting things about Latin verbs, or Latin in general, can be found here:
http://en.wiki
2006-01-09 [lini]: jeej lesson 4. sorry for that comment.
2006-01-12 [Janouk]: No, you had every right to ask about it! I'll try to finish it soon, make some exercises etc., I just need to find inspiration/ti
2006-10-30 [SilverFire]: Is this class still actively being taught?
2006-10-30 [Janouk]: To be honest I was taking an enormously large break, but I've been planning to start again soon.
Why, have you got questions/plan
2006-10-30 [SilverFire]: No, not really; I take Latin at uni now, but I love sharing my knowledge, so I was just checking if the class was active, or whether I could force my random factoids onto people. :P
2006-10-30 [Janouk]: I'm just a highschool student who has now become Uni-student. So I no longer have lessons in Latin :( Therefor, I'd very much appreciate it if you had any nice addition thingies :)
I'm so sad about the fact that I don't have Latin and Greek any more...*is jealous* :p
2006-10-31 [SilverFire]: :P Gah. Wish I could take greek too, but this year. Hey, if you know Greek, make a classroom for that, damnit :P *hounds you*
2006-10-31 [Janouk]: *has an ancient Greek classroom already* :)
2006-10-31 [SilverFire]: :o I must be blind, I couldn't see a link anywhere when I checked the lists... *goes to look again*
2006-11-20 [Janouk]: I found a nice wiki page by the way: Everyday Latin Phrases.
2006-11-20 [Janouk]: Or this website: http://www.yun
;) I'll try to add something before the end of this month.
2007-01-30 [SilverFire]: *pokes page*
2007-01-31 [Janouk]: OMG *sobs*
2007-01-31 [SilverFire]: O.o It was only a poke.
2007-07-02 [Adela Leafshanks]: O omnipotenti dei qui caelum regunt...me sinite ambulata hos nonsacria moenia...Moeni
2007-07-02 [Janouk]: Sed quare moenia destruere vis? Eheu, hoc non comprehendo!
2007-07-02 [SilverFire]: Assuming the first part is 'O omnipotent gods who rule the sky', it should be more like this: O dei omnipotentes, quos(could be wrong here; relative pronoun is a bitch) caelum regunt.
2007-07-04 [Adela Leafshanks]: Yep, that's it *_^ Thanks for pointing out that relative pronoun. I need to brush up on those little things > .<
Janouk: veniam peto, meus grammatica horrendus est! Moenia destruere vis quod dei omnipotentes hos delerunt. (I hope this makes sense...)
2007-11-23 [Lin-tastic]: -timidly walks in- Hi. ^_^" I hope I'm not interupting anything. I wasn't sure if the Elftown Academy held Latin Classes...unti
2007-11-23 [Janouk]: It's pretty dead at the moment though...But have fun walking trough the first couple of lessons ;)
2007-11-23 [Lin-tastic]: -nods- Thanks! Oh, I kinda...went ahead and made a "Latin Words" page where I write out things I should know...from the first lessons...and really, it's my notes page. XD I only got through the first lesson so far, but that's because I had to get off the computer. I hope to add more later. ^_^"
