Noun-Adjective Agreement

How do nouns and adjectives have to agree?

• Person and Number

• Gender, Number, and Case

• case and number only

• declension

Form the noun-adjective pair: happy girls (feminine, plural, accusative)

• laetas puellas

• laetam puellam

• laetis puellis

• laetum puerum

Form the noun-adjective pair: angry boy (masculine, singular, nominative)

• irato puero

• iratus puer

• irati pueri

• iratum puerum

Form the noun-adjective pair: many mothers (feminine, plural, ablative)

• multarum matrum

• multae matres

• multam matrem

• multis matribus

Choose the noun-adjective pair that does NOT agree.

• multorum patrum

• omnes puellae

• bona matrem

• novae villae

Choose the noun-adjective pair that DOES agree.

• omnibus puellis

• laetos pater

• magnam plaustrum

• multarum feminae

Translate into English: Tres servi onera magna in multis plaustris ferebant.

• Three slaves will carry a big load in many wagons.

• Three slaves carry many loads in big wagons.

• Many slaves were carrying big loads in three wagons.

• Three slaves were carrying big loads in many wagons.

Translate into Latin: Now all the men are walking into the big country house.

• Mox omni viri in magna villa ambulant.

• Iam omnes viri in magnam villam ambulant.

• Nunc omni viri in magnas villas ambulant.

• Heri omnes viri in magnam villam ambulabant.

Translate into Latin: The happy father was giving a dog to the good daughter.

• Laeti patres canem bonae filliae dant.

• Laetus pater canem bonae filiae dabat.

• Bonus pater canem laetae filiae dat.

• Laetus pater canes bonae filiae dabat.

Translate into English: Amicae defessi sub arbore magna sedebant quod dies calidus erat.

• The angry friends will sit under many trees because the day will be warm.

• The tired friend is sitting under the big tree because the day is warm.

• The tired friends were sitting under a big tree because the day was warm.

• The energetic girls did not want to sit under the big tree although the day was warm.