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Vocative. Cases of Nouns. Nominative. Accusative. Genitive. Ablative. Dative. Nominative?. ….doing the verb eg.. the girl spoke Latin = puella. Accusative?. ....receiving the action of the verb eg….I saw the girl = puellam. Dative?. ….expresses to or for
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Vocative Cases of Nouns Nominative Accusative Genitive Ablative Dative
Nominative? ….doing the verb eg..the girl spoke Latin = puella
Accusative? ....receiving the action of the verb eg….I saw the girl = puellam
Dative? ….expresses to or for eg… I bought a Christmas present for the girl = puellae
Genitive??? ……shows possession, ……..same as ‘of’ ………same as ’s or s’ eg. I took the girl’s book = puellae I took the girls’ books = puellarum
Vocative?? ….used for addressing people, ……not really part of the sentence ……… only used in direct speech eg. She said, “Girls, we have a visitor!” = puellae
ablative ….used to show the instrument used to do the verb ……eg, Harold was killed by an arrow = sagitta eg, Romeo was loved by the girl = a puella
Vocative Addressing/calling someone ‘Romeo, I love you!’ Cases of Nouns Nominative Doing the verb Romeo loves Juliet Accusative Receiving the verb Romeo loves Juliet Genitive ‘of’ The death of Juliet Ablative ‘by’, ‘with’, ‘from’ Juliet was not killed by the potion Dative ‘to’, ‘for’ The apothecary gave the potion to Juliet
Are there any patterns that will help us spot which case is which? Adjectives like bonus have the same endings as servus / puella (1st/2nd dec) Adjectives like fortis have the same endings as leo (3rd dec)
Which case? • Clemens was working for his master • The slave was helping with the cooking • Metella was cleaning the chair. • The chair was the property of Caecilius. • Caecilius entered the splendid triclinium. • Caecilius’ dinner was on the table. • Caecilius gave the wine to the guest. • He said: Grumio, come here.
Which case is it? I enter the house The slave gave food to the horse The master was very fond of his parrot I told you, Clemens, don’t go to that shop. This is the shop of Eutychus. Eutychus has a very splendid shop. Some shop keepers protected their shops with gangs.
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nominativeaccusativegenitivedative servuspecuniam dedit
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qui, quae, quod who, which
singular either plural quod qua quarum quorum quo quos quas quibus quae cui qui quem cuius
Nom Acc Gen Dat Abl quod qua quarum quorum quo quos quas quibus quae cui qui quem cuius
Which part of qui? The man, who was eating ice-cream, was happy. The ice-cream, which the man was eating, was enormous. The van, from which the man bought the ice-cream, was playing a tune. The ice-cream seller, to whom the van belonged, was proud of his ice-cream. The ice-cream, of which the seller was proud, was renowned throughout the land.
senex cui epistulam misisti non adest. • da mihi equum qui celerior est. • captivi quorum custos eram omnes effugerant. • turba cuius clamores audire possumus irata est. • ancilla quam omnes amant pulcherrima est. • senex quem intrantem vidi fur erat. • hic est liber sine quo nihil facere possum. • puellae quibuscum Horatia ludebat forum intraverunt. • ei qui fugerunt mox fessi erunt.