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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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2004-02-09 [Aristotle]: Oh, and for those who want to study by themselves, there is an excellent page for that: www.textkit.com (they also teach Ancient Greek). They have free textbooks, and Latin readers.

2004-02-09 [Urizen]: yay! thank you! you are a wonderful person... he he he *goes off to play with the pretty toys (aka the webpage)*

2004-02-10 [Aristotle]: Umm, right. Of course I am.

2004-03-14 [Lucifers Minion]: so has almost everyone here taken real latin courses before? I've never done anything with latin, and am learning here because my school doesn't offer it and prety much no place in the city does either, except universities, and i'm only 16. anyways, ami going to get lost here then?

2004-03-14 [Lavilia]: No I don't think so, if you read this, and do the exercises you will lurn latin.

2004-04-28 [Thaelan]: Yup, I'm in latin, and its fun. But don't worry, these lessons will take you through step by step, they are very well put together. (for anyone who is thinking about latin, this is a good review of the basics!)

2004-05-06 [Sheona]: Yeah, these classes are designed for complete beginners, so don't worry ^_^

2004-05-17 [-51228-]: i'm worse than a beginner i haven't got a clue

2004-05-20 [Sheona]: Slight change...I've just put the answers up here. I'll trut you to not look at them until AFTER you've finished the exercises ;)

2004-06-02 [jonayla]: not to be annoying or anything(sorry if i am) but are there going to be anymore lessons?

2004-06-03 [Sheona]: Yeah, my exams just finished. I'm free! Yay!

2004-06-03 [Sheona]: UPDATE: new lesson up!

2004-06-07 [jonayla]: yah thank you

2004-06-09 [Lavilia]: I am done (as always, I also finished my exams latin, I hope I did them well)

2004-06-12 [Dulce Vita]: Hey, do you have a chart for the conjugations of SUM (in present, imperf.,fut., perf., pluperf., and fut. perf.)?

2004-06-15 [Sheona]: I suppose I could put one up, although that's skipping ahead a little. If you want one, I'm sure I can do that!

2004-06-15 [Dulce Vita]: sure, please

2004-06-18 [Dulce Vita]: sorry for skipping ahead of you, though

2004-06-29 [the 5th apocalyptic horseman]: nice page here people... i took latin for 4 years now, but tis nice to see the basics again. and for the comment on the beginning of this page "not that you'll ever be speaking in Latin to anyone, because it is a dead language" i just have to say: thats not correct. at least for me it isnt. theres so much music with latin lyrics... specially all those mr songs that are set up in two languages... i actually use my knowledge of this language mainly for that.

2004-06-30 [jonayla]: Supposably there's also a type of spoken latin but it has many other languages added to it and new words made up... so many don't consider it latin anymore

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

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