Latin Noun Basics Review

Noun Basics Review

By Mary catherine Rigg

About Nouns

• Nouns are people, places, things, and ideas.

• In Latin, nouns can have one of three genders:

  • Masculine

  • Feminine

  • Neuter

• Nouns can also be singular (one) or plural (more than one)

• Nouns also have a case to show how they are being used in a sentence.

Multiple Select

Nouns are:

• People

• Places

• Things

• Ideas

Multiple Choice

Which of the options below is NOT a gender in Latin?

• masculine

• neuter

• feminine

• neutral

Multiple Choice

Which is the correct definition for a noun's number?

• The aspect of a noun that shows its tense.
• Whether a noun is singular or plural.

• The form of a noun that indicates its case.
• The category that describes a noun's gender.

Cases

• Nominative - case for the subject (who/what the sentence is about)

• Genitive - show's possession (translated as "of")

• Dative - indirect object (translated as to/for)

  • Answers the question "to/for whom?"

• Accusative - The direct object (who is being acted upon by the main verb or motion towards a place)

• Ablative - Translated as "by/ with/ from" (for motion away or no motion)

• Vocative - For direct address (talking directly to someone)

Multiple Choice

Which case is translated with "of"

• ablative

• nominative

• genitive

• dative

Multiple Choice

Which case tells you who is 'doing the verb'?

• nominative

• accusative

• genitive

• dative

Multiple Choice

Which case should you translate with 'to' or 'for'?

• genitive

• accusative

• dative

• ablative

Declensions

• Nouns have declensions

  • Declensions are groups or "families" that nouns fall into

  • There are five declensions

  • A noun will only ever use endings from its own declension

    • A noun from first declension can only ever use first declension endings

• You can find the charts for the declensions in schoology, your notes, the poster on the wall, or in one of the physical dictionaries

Multiple Select

Where can you find charts for the declension endings?

• Magistra's poster on the wall

• The notes

• The online dictionary

• The physical dictionary

Practice:

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct case and number for
FORTUNAM

• nominative singular
• nominative plural
• accusative singular
• accusative plural

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct case and number for
EQUUS.

• nominative singular
• nominative plural
• accusative singular
• accusative plural

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct case and number for
VIAS.

• nominative singular
• nominative plural
• accusative singular
• accusative plural

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct endings for the words with blanks:  Ubi est famil____ nunc?

• familia
• familiae
• familiam
• familias

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct endings for the words with blanks: Agricol____ bon____ silvam spectant.

• Agricola bona
• Agricolae bonae
• Agricolae bonus
• Agricolae boni

Open Ended

Do you have any questions for magistra?