Latin I Chapter 2 Nouns and Declensions

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What are nouns?

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Words that represent people, places, things, or ideas.

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What are cases in grammar?

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Grammatical categories that indicate the function of a noun in a sentence.

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What are declensions?

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Patterns of noun endings that determine the case of a noun.

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What is the nominative case?

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Indicates someone is doing an action; first form given in a dictionary.

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What is the genitive case?

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Indicates ownership; can mean 'of'; second form given in a dictionary.

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1st Declension Nominative Singular ending

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-a

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1st Declension Nominative Plural ending

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-ae

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1st Declension Genitive Singular ending

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-ae

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1st Declension Genitive Plural ending

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-arum

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2nd Declension Nominative Singular ending

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-us/-er