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Wheelock Chapter II

Wheelock Chapter II. First Declension Nouns and Adjectives. Nouns. Latin is an inflected language Nouns have number , gender , and case. Cases. Nominative Case Used for the SUBJECT of a sentence The poet is giving roses to the girl. PREDICATE NOMINATIVE My daughter is a poet .

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Wheelock Chapter II

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  1. Wheelock Chapter II First Declension Nouns and Adjectives

  2. Nouns • Latin is an inflected language • Nouns have number, gender, and case.

  3. Cases • Nominative Case • Used for the SUBJECT of a sentence • The poet is giving roses to the girl. • PREDICATE NOMINATIVE • My daughter is a poet. • Genitive Case • Used to indicate POSSESSION • The poems of the poet are terrific. • Dative Case • Used for the INDIRECT OBJECT • The poet is giving roses to the girl.

  4. Cases • Accusative Case • Used to indicate the DIRECT OBJECT of the verb • The poet is giving roses to the girl. • Ablative Case • Used for, uh, basically extra information • The poet is giving roses to the girl with care. • Vocative Case • Used for DIRECT ADDRESS • O poet, would you give these roses to the girl?

  5. 1st Declension Nouns/Adjectives Like we conjugate verbs by adding endings to a stem, we decline nouns by adding endings to a base. Nouns will be listed by their nominative and genitive forms: poeta, poetae (or poeta, -ae) *Identify which declension by the genitive *Form the base by going to the genitive and dropping the genitive ending (-ae)

  6. Declension of porta, -ae

  7. Decline and translate puella, puellae

  8. Translate the following nouns • puellam • puellās • puellae • patriās • patria • patriā • poenārum • poenīs

  9. Adjectives Adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify in number, gender, and case! Adjectives often follow the noun they modify (e.g. porta magna = the great gate)

  10. Translate into Latin • By money • great life • of the girl • to the girls

  11. Circle subjects. Underline direct objects. Translate. Nautaerosāspuellīsdant. Nautīsrosāspuellaedant. Poētapuellāsmultāsamat. Magnus poētanōnest sine famā. Formampuellaemeaevideō.

  12. Identify the case of the underlined noun. Then, translate. • Salvē, Ō patria! • Fāma et sententia volant. • Dā veniam puellae. • Clēmentia tua multās vītās servat. • Philosophia est ars vitae.

  13. Identify the case of the underlined noun. Then, translate. • Mē philosophiae dō. • Īra creat īnsāniam. • Dēbēmus īram vītāre. • Nūlla avāritia sine poenā est. (nullus = no) • Rotam fortūnae nōn timent.

  14. 9. Provide an English derivative from Column A. 10. Provide an English derivative from Column B.

  15. What are the three characteristics of a Latin noun? • In what three ways must an adjective agree with the noun it is modifying? • What case is used for the subject? • Decline and translate nauta, nautae (sailor). • Translate the sentence and give the case of the underlined word. • Poētapuellāsmultāsamat. • Dāveniampuellae. • Poētapuellamnōnamat. • Obdūrō, meapuella—sed sine tēnōnvaleō.

  16. BONUS Literally meaning “I will love you,” what does amabōtē mean idiomatically? What does Ad astra per aspera mean? As we know, Romulus killed his brother, Remus, and gave his own name to Rome. What year did this happen?

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