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Latin Classroom

Teacher: [SilverFire]

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].

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If you want to be a student of this class, please sign in at the Latin Students list.

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Lessons:

Past Latin Lessons
Past Latin Vocab

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.
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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).

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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.

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Interesting things about Latin verbs, or Latin in general, can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_conjugation. It definately is worth a glance if you want to speed things up a little bit ;)

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Back to Languages, the Elftown Academy,
or have a look at the Ancient Greek Classroom

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2004-06-30 [the 5th apocalyptic horseman]: lol well those medieval rock songs usually either use ancient or medieval latin.

2004-07-08 [font]: hmmm i remember the days of learning latin at school...

2004-09-14 [Sheona]: You ocassionally encounter Latin still in old songs and perhaps in a Christian context, too. However, it is "officially" a dead language. You don't often find anyone to talk to in Latin these day ;)

2004-09-14 [SilverFire]: yet so many words are Latin based...in quite a lot of languages.

2004-09-14 [Sheona]: That's very true. Most European languages are derived from Latin, so although you won't be speaking Latin to anyone, it can certainly improve your skills in other languages!

2004-09-14 [Sheona]: Just a note: the conjugations of esse, sum, fui have been put in the Past Latin Vocab. Answers are also now up!

2004-09-17 [Lavilia]: yay you great!

2004-10-28 [Lavilia]: I'm writing out. I am too busy for doing this, I have to study

2005-02-12 [M_Sinner]: I took Latin for 2 years, but have been out of the loop for nearly one full year now, studting only sparsely to keep up my skills. I am eager to learn all that I can and help in any way that I can.

2005-02-12 [M_Sinner]: Is there anywhere we should send the answers we got for the lessons, or post them anywhere, or just do them *looks around inocently, hoping someone doesn't hit him*

2005-05-05 [M_Sinner]: Quiet group, these guys...

2005-06-13 [Kitara Softpaw]: *coughs* Sorry I didn't sign up until today...I've been working on the slessons courtesy of my sister, Neziah

2005-08-07 [Janouk]: Hi! You might have noticed that the previous Latin teacher left this classroom. I will try to continue her classroom, and maybe add some new lessons soon. First I want to see what [Sheona]'s been teaching so far, as to make a good lesson to continue with. I am avaible for questions about anything though.

2005-08-07 [M_Sinner]: ALRIGHT!!! WE have an active Latin Teacher!!! *dances* Adsum, Magistra!

2005-08-07 [Janouk]: [Sheona]m bonam magistram esse video! *gets nervous*

2005-08-07 [M_Sinner]: Nonne! Non in loco erat... Holtsladeram bonam magistram esse. She was my Latin teacher at my former high school.

2005-08-07 [Janouk]: Oh! Id comprehendo ;)

2005-12-14 [lini]: is there ever going to be a lesson 4?

2005-12-14 [Janouk]: I am trying to find time to make a new lesson which will be able to follow up the ones the previous teacher already made. As a matter of fact, I searched for what I made yesterday, so I might get something online next week.

2005-12-14 [Janouk]: I'm really sorry for taking so long though...

2006-01-09 [lini]: jeej lesson 4. sorry for that comment.

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