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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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.

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.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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