#latin masterpost

Alright, latin grammar can be a bitch and we all know it, but to get the real tough parts, soemtimes we’ll have to revise the basic stuff, or actually just learn it to begin with, so here it comes:

This is the first overview over what each form even means. Let’s dive in a little deeper

Nominative

That’s the simplest part, it is always simply the person or object, that does something

e.g. “Cicero held a speech in the forum.” In this sentence, to figure out the Nom. u just look at the verb and ask: “Who or what held the speech?” The answer is Cicero, which is a word in the nominative form.

Genitive

e.g. “Tiro brought Cicero’s script to the forum.” For this one u ask: “Whose script did Tiro bring?” to figure out, which word is the genitive.

Dative

Same thing as the others, except the question word is “whom”, like “whom did the jacket belong to” or something similar.

Accusative

e.g. “Plinius saw the vesuvius erupt.” The question would be “Who or what did Plinius see?”

Ablative

e.g. “Cicero walked to the forum with Tiro.” and for that:” With whom did Cicero walk?”

Let’s get this bread

There’s generally six forms of declinations for the different kinds of latin words, so here comes the flash card collection:

This one applies to words ending on -a, like “domina” or “amica” or “cura”

Example words: “dominus” or “puer” or “ager”

The neutral version of this declination is for words ending on “-um” like “verbum” or “templum”

“senator” or “civitas” or “mercator”

“turris” or “mare” or “vis”

“navis” or “pars”

“exercitus” or “cornu”

“res” or “dies”

To declinate a word, like one of the example words, in its declination, you have to know the word’s root, that’s usually given when u learn the word, like: