LATIN 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Finite Verb, Dative Case, Preposition And Postposition
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Latin cases: cases - cases provide information about what each noun, pronoun, or adjective is doing in a sentence, latin has six common cases, nominative - subject of a finite verb, genitive possession (1) e. g. Of ____ : dative indirect object (1) e. g. To ___ , or for ___ : accusative - direct object, ablative (cid:1445)by, with, from, in __(cid:1446) often with a preposition, vocative direct address, locative place. Nominative and accusative case uses: nominative subject of a finite verb, agricola lab rat, the farmer works, accusative direct object, feminam amant, they love the woman. The noun: nouns in latin fall into five regular groups called declensions according to the vowel that originally appeared at the end of the noun stem. (cid:431), e(cid:431) (cid:430) (or a consonant) u (cid:431) Iv: the stem carries the meaning of the noun and the case endings indicate its function in the sentence, nouns are marked for case and for number (singular or plural)
