LATIN 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Active Voice, Arrest Warrant, Infinitive

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Latin (Classics)
• Course: LATIN 103
• Professor: Geoffrey Ludvik

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Latin103 - lecture 1 - introduction to latin. We won"t learn past-tense or other tenses until later on in the course. Passive voice: the ball was kicked by her. Verbs can be indicative, infinitive or imperative (and subjunctive). Parse means to identify person, number, tense, voice, mood. Person: who the verb is identified with. Tense: we"ll use present tense for most of the semester. Mood: can be indicative, infinitive or imperative. Unconjugated verbs (to run, to go) are infinitive. Theme of vowel (look at infinitive) sets how you"ll parse it. Look at the last three letters to discover the theme. First person stem: the vowel ( ) isn"t there. (see below. ) We"ll start with tense: present, voice: active, mood: indicative. For the present active indicative, the endings of conjugations are always the same. 3rd singular am am s amat singular mon o mon s monet singular mitt mittis mittit capere (i-stem = i is always there)