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Grammar Practice

This document provides a grammar lesson on Latin cases and declensions. It includes questions about the nominative and accusative cases, the endings for each of the three declensions in both cases for singular and plural nouns, special rules for third declension nouns, and examples of declining nouns according to their declension and case. There are also examples of translating Latin sentences using declined nouns.

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Grammar Practice

This document provides a grammar lesson on Latin cases and declensions. It includes questions about the nominative and accusative cases, the endings for each of the three declensions in both cases for singular and plural nouns, special rules for third declension nouns, and examples of declining nouns according to their declension and case. There are also examples of translating Latin sentences using declined nouns.

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Ecce 7 – grammar practice

I. What does “case” mean?

II. What 2 cases do you know in Latin?

III.How does each case work in the sentence?

IV. What is an alternative nominative singular ending in the 2nd


declension?

V. What is unique about the 3rd declension nominative singular?

VI.Write out the endings for nominative & accusative cases in all 3
declensions:

1st Decl 2nd Decl 3rd Decl


SINGULAR
Nom
Acc
PLURAL
Nom
Acc
VII. Howdo you deal with an –es ending in 3rd declension nouns?
Write out the steps of the process.

VIII.Write out the 4 steps for dealing with translation of a Latin


sentence.

Fill in the blanks:

A Latin noun in the nominative case is used as the ________________


of the verb. A Latin noun in the accusative case is used as the -
________________ of the verb. The Latin nouns met so far fall into
______ declensions. Nouns in the ________ declension end in –a in
the nominative singular. Most nouns in the 2nd declension ending in
______ in the nominative singular, but some, like _____________ and
_______________, end in –r. The nominative singular of the
_______ declension varies from noun to noun. Some examples of 3rd
declension nouns are ________________, ________________ and
________________.
Practicing Declensions
I. DECLINE each noun listed here (add the correct nominative &
accusative, singular & plural endings)

1ST DECL PUELLA SILVA VILLA AQUA


SINGULAR
NOMINATIVE
ACCUSATIVE
PLURAL
NOMINATIVE
ACCUSATIVE

2ND DECL VIR RIVUS LUPUS SERVUS


SINGULAR
NOMINATIVE
ACCUSATIVE
PLURAL
NOMINATIVE
ACCUSATIVE

3RD DECL ARBOR VOX PATER URBS


(ARBOR-) (VOC-) (PATR-) (URB-)
SINGULAR
NOMINATIVE
ACCUSATIVE
PLURAL
NOMINATIVE
ACCUSATIVE
II. For the following nouns, first give the GENITIVE SINGULAR
(from the dictionary entry), then give the requested case & number.
Remember to use the correct stem for the 3rd declension nouns:

Genitive Singular Declension Gender


(1/2/3) (M/F)
servus ________________ ______ ______
epistula ________________ ______ ______
mater ________________ ______ ______
nuntius ________________ ______ ______
ancilla ________________ ______ ______
cibus ________________ ______ ______
princeps ________________ ______ ______
III. Fill in the blank with the correct nominative or accusative form of the noun in
parentheses. (WATCH S/PL)

a. Cornelius ________________ scribit. (epistula)


b. Nuntius multos ________________ salutat. (puer)
c. ________________ Davum saepe vexant. (lupus)
d. Davus multas ________________ audit. (vox)
e. ________________ rivum conspiciunt. (puella)
f. Sextus ________________ascendit. (arbor)
g. Sunt multae ________________ in agris. (arbor)
h. ________________ puellas terrent. (lupus)

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