answer the following questions: what are the 6 cases? what are the jobs of the 6 cases?
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Latin
xvii September MMXIII
BELL WORK
Answer the following questions:
• What are the 6 cases?• What are the jobs of the 6
cases?
TODAYStudents will know and understand:I. How to decline a Latin
noun.II. How to translate Latin
nouns.III. Noun/adjective agreement.
1st declension noun endings
Declining and translating
Endings must be attached to stems in order to decline a noun. To find the stem of any noun, go to the genitive case and remove the ending. This is your stem. Like puella, puellae–the girl. The stem is puell.
Declining example
Comparing Latin and English case usage
English1. The girl sees the poet.2. The poet praises the
girl’s beauty.3. The poet gives the
rose to the girl.4. The poet loves the girl.5. The poet makes
mistakes without the girl.
6. O Girl, I love you!
Latin1. Puella poetam videt.2. Poeta formam
puellae laudat.3. Poeta rosam puellae
dat.4. Poeta puellam amat.5. Poeta sine puellā
errat.6. O puella, Amo te!
Noun/Adjective Agreement
The purpose of adjectives is to modify nouns. In Latin, adjectives need to modify nouns in gender, number, and case. That does not mean that the endings will be the same. For example, since agricola is masculine, the great farmer has to be agricola magnus. It will become important to remember that the endings may not match.
Latin
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