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Basics of latin
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Well im going to make a thread on pretty much everything covered in Latin 1. This is going to take me a long time. So I am going to just start off with the basics of the grammar and the first declension. If you need any help with anything please just ask. I am very skilled in Latin, well at least Latin 1.

Latin is known as the dead language. It is known as this becuase no country speaks this as a primary language, but Latin has influenced many languages such as Spanish.

So were did Latin Come from?

Well Latin came from Rome, witch was a city in Italy in from around 700bc to 200 ad. Its something close to that.

Some basics of Latin grammar. Well in Latin there is no word order. So i can say "bike rode I" or anything else. The reason for this is becuase in latin everything has a ending. Nouns have endings called Declensions. Verbs have endings called personal endings. Also every verb has 4 principle parts. But for now I am just going to do the first declension and some things with verbs.

The first declension in Latin is associated with feminine. ( there are some exceptions).

So here are the endings and across from it is its case. I will explain cases later.
Singular:
  • a Nominative
  • ae Genitive
  • ae Dative
  • am Accusative
  • a Ablative

Plural:
  • ae Nominative
  • arum Genitive
  • is Dative
  • as Accusative
  • is Ablative

So in the lists above we have to things. One is the endings, the other is the cases.

So now I am going to do a very brief over view of each.
Nominative:
This case is used to show who is performing the action.
Example: ( english) The girl carries water.
( Latin) Puella portat aquam
See the yellow, this signifies that the words are the same. portat is the verb, and water is the direct object ( accusative case)
remember these are brief.
Genative: This case is used mainly to show possession. Also know as ownership if you learned it that way. An example in English is " That is my bike "



Well thats as far as i got tonight. I will keep the is updated pretty much daily. Hope you guys like it.
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Basics of latin - by RDCA - 03-23-2011, 08:22 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by r0yaL - 03-26-2011, 10:06 AM
RE: Basics of latin - by RDCA - 03-26-2011, 03:38 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by SeePlusPlus - 03-26-2011, 03:56 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by r0yaL - 03-31-2011, 01:36 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by Fresh Prince - 04-05-2011, 09:51 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by Justin - 04-05-2011, 09:53 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by r0yaL - 04-06-2011, 04:57 PM
RE: Basics of latin - by RDCA - 04-06-2011, 05:09 PM

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