Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Latin Nouns
- Nominative Nouns = subject that does the verb
- e.g. ELLA ran the race: Who ran the race? Ella did so Ella is the subject/nominative noun
- Accusative Noun = object to which the verb is done
- e.g. ELLA ran the race. What did Ella run? She ran THE RACE - ie the race is the object/accusative noun
- Latin has 3 groups of nouns
- Each group is called a DECLENSION
- Each declension forms the nominative, accusative and dative case in a different way
- DECLENSION NUMBER 1
- SINGULAR
- NOMINATIVE ends in "a" e.g. ANCILLA (slave girl
- Form the accusative case by adding an "m" - e.g. ANCILLAM
- PLURAL
- Nominative ends in "ae" e.g. ancillae
- accusative ends in "S" e.g ancillas
- DECLENSION NUMBER 2
- SINGULAR
- Ends in "us" - e.g. Caecilius or servus (servant)
- Form the accusative case by changing the last "s" to "m" - e.g. Caecilium or servum
- PLURAL
- nominative take off "US" and add "I"
- e.g servi
- accusative take off "US" and add"OS"
- e.g servos
- DECLENSION NUMBER 3
- SINGULAR
- Other nouns that aren't Declension 1 or 2 - e.g. leo (lion) or mercator (merchant)
- Accusative always ends in "em" - e.g. leonem (lion) or mercatorem (merchant)
- PLURAL
- nominative add"ES"
- e.g leones (also add N)
- eg1 mercatores
- accusative is the SAME!!!!