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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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2003-10-24 [Sheona]: I'll write new lessons when people say they have finished the current one! Remember to say 'finished' next to your name near the top of the page. I'll post the answers on the page when you finish!

2003-10-25 [Lavilia]: I am done, I said that in my comment, should I add done to my name?

2003-10-25 [SilverFire]: yup *nod* *nod*

2003-10-31 [Sheona]: Yeah, add it to your name.

2003-10-31 [Sheona]: Well, my poem was chosen as one of the Halloween poems. Yay! I've been feeling really depressed (probably why I haven't updated this as often as I should, so sorry about that) since my friend was murdered a couple months back. Having my poem picked really put a smile on my face. The first time I've smile in weeks. So I'm feeling a little better. Strange how something so small can have such an effect. Want to vote for my poem on the main street? Please? Lol. ^_^

2003-11-03 [Thraganux]: *frowns* should i join or not, *flips a coin* well that did not help much... *still thinking*

2003-12-17 [Sheona]: Hey guys! Just to let you know I should be back now. I've been in hospital due to back problems 9I was hit by a car). SO sorry to keep you waiting!

2003-12-17 [Lavilia]: are you okay now? I am so sorry to hear you had an accident!

2003-12-19 [Sheona]: I'm alot better than I was, although I've been told no running, jumping, bouncing, carrying heavy objects (there goes my bass guitar!) or sitting (oops. nevermind). I'll live!

2003-12-20 [Lavilia]: Be careful please! We wouldn't want you to suffer any damage that lasts

2004-01-12 [Sheona]: Well, it's a little late for that! lol. I have three slipped disks, so I'm going to have to be careful with my back for the rest of my life. It kinda affects my chosen career too, but oh well. Hopefully I should be able to sit down more soon!

2004-01-28 [adnihilo]: Is this Latin 1?

2004-01-28 [Sheona]: This is Latin 2! ^_^

2004-01-29 [adnihilo]: it is???!!! when do we start past tense then? and future?

2004-01-30 [Lavilia]: Do you want to get confused now already? There are way too many times 5 or 6 I believe. Believe me, you don't want to start that yet

2004-01-30 [Sheona]: You will start different tenses soon enough. But Latin is a little more complex than simple tenses. We will get to that in time! Lol.

2004-01-31 [Urizen]: what is fun is when you get psycho tenses for verbs, he he he like in the greek aorist tense... *flashes a nerd sign*, what are the different verb tenses for latin? are they like english?

2004-01-31 [Aristotle]: Well, there are about 300 different ways to conjugate each Latin verb, according to my book (I haven't counted). On the other hand, all of them have English versions, but you have to use several words, like "I would have shown", which is in Latin "monstravissem", I think. Once again, straight from my book. I don't know much myself. Yet. *Hugs book*

2004-02-08 [dragonlady24]: 300. wow. I've been taking Latin for 2 1/2 years and I know only 60 ways to conjugate verbs

2004-02-08 [Lavilia]: You know what? I only know how to translate Latin into Dutch. When I do these classes, I first translate into Dutch, and then translate into English. I have had Latin for 4 and a half year now, and I still suck at it

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.

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