A | B |
Verb families are called -- | conjugations |
How many conjugations are there? | four |
6 characteristics of verbs | conjugation, person, number, tense,voice, mood |
3 grammar persons and what they mean | 1st speaking 2nd spoken to 3rd spoken about |
Name the 6 tenses. | pres,imp, fut, perf, plup, fut perf |
Number means -- | singular or plural |
stem vowel for 1st conj | a |
3 English present tenses | simple, progressive, emphatic |
I praise | simple |
I am praising | progressive |
I do praise | emphatic |
Imperfect means -- | not finished |
imperfect tense sign | ba |
Imperfect tense describes--- | ongoing repeated habitual interrupted action |
Engl helping verb for imperfect tense | was were |
two sentence parts | subject predicate |
Subject is-- | who or what sentence is about |
Predicate tells-- | what subject is or does |
sentence pattern 1 | subject + verb |
Engl helping verb for future | will |
3 tenses of present system | present, imperfect, future |
Present system is built on -- | present stem |
What are and how many principal parts? | 4; used for stems |
2nd principal part? | infinitive |
infinitive ending for 1st conj | are |
present stem | drop re from infinitive |
English infinitive | to-- |
To be shows--not-- | existence not action |
Engl forms of to be | am is are was were be being been |
regular endings for 1st conj | o are avi atus |
sentence pattern 2 | subj + verb + direct object |
Something that completes action of verb | complement |
Perfect means-- | finished |
What action does a perfect tense show? | one time completed past action |
Perfect tense is built on-- | perfect stem |
Perfect stem | drop i from 3rd principal part |
3 translations for vocavi | I called, have called, did call |
Engl helping verbs for perfect | have, as, did |
Pluperfect tense is built on-- | perfect |
What action does a plup verb show? | past action further in the past |
Engl helping verb for pluperfect | had |
Pluperfect tense endings are like-- | imperfect of to be |
Future perfect tense is built on -- | perfect stem |
Fut perf describes-- | fut action prior to another future action |
English helping verbs for fut perf | will have |
Fut perf same as --except-- | fut of to be; 3rd pers plu |
perfect system tenses | perfect, pluperfect, future perfect |
noun families | declensions |
How many declensions? Names? | 5 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th |
4 noun characteristics | declension, gender, number, case |
3 genders | masc, fem, neuter |
Nouns naming male or female have--gender | natural |
Nouns naming non-living things have --gender | grammatical |
case | job of a noun in a sentence |
Name cases in order. | nominative genitive dative accusative ablative |
subject case | nominative |
direct object case | accusative |
indirect object case | dative |
possessive case | genitive |
in/by/with/from case | ablative |
to/for case | dative |
of case | genitive |
gen.s. ending for 1st declension | ae |
gender of most 1st decl nouns | feminine |
3 masc first decl nouns | poeta nauta agricola |
Latin does not use the articles-- | a an the |
Translate mensa | table the table a table |
genitive sing ending for 2nd decl | i |
2nd decl -us nouns are -------gender | masculine |
2nd decl um nouns are---gender | neuter |
Verbs have personal tense endings; nouns have-- | case endings |
Case that determines declension | gen sing |
Natural gender-- | trumps all |
neuter rule | nom & acc are same; nom & acc pl -a |
Subject and verb agree in-- | case, number, gender |
adjective | modifies or describes a noun |
Adjectives agree with nouns in--but not-- | gender, number,case not declension |
Adj of quantity --noun; adj of quality --noun | precedes follows |
counting numbers | cardinal |
numbers showing order | ordinal |
sentence pattern 3 | subj+ linking vb+ pa |
sentence pattern 4 | subj + linking vb + pn |
genitive sing of 3rd decl | is |
How can yo know the gender of 3rd decl? | Memorize it. |
Masc and fem 3rd decl nouns have ---case endings | same |
How do you find the stem of a noun? | drop genitive singular ending |
usual Eng word order | subj-verb-direct obj |
How many of 7 sentence patterns have complements? | six |
3 complements | direct object, pred adj, pred nom |
2 kinds of direct objects | complementary inf, direct object |
usual Latin word order | subj -direct object-verb |
What kind of verb never has a direct object? | to be |
genitive sing of 4th decl. | us |
4th decl nouns are usually ---gender. | masc |
Domus and manus are --gender | feminine |
genitive sing of 5th decl | ei |
Most 5th decl nouns are --gender | feminine |
What gender is dies? | masculine |
stem vowel of 2nd conj | ei |
infinitive ending for 2nd conj | ere (long) |
regular endings for 2nd conj | eo ere(long) ui itus |