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What sequence is given by the vocabulary entry magnus, -a, -um?

Attributing Adjectives Now that we’ve seen all three genders at work, we can start to think about how adjectives “agree” with nouns in Latin. Watch this video for an introduction:  

Second declension nouns In this quiz, we’ll be expanding our knowledge of nouns and Latin by looking at 2nd declension nouns, which are primarily masculine and neuter in gender. You’ll find information about this declension in Capita III & IV, but watch this video to get started!

Fill in the following blanks by morphing the Latin words according to the instructions given: puer, puerī, m. genitive plural: [puerorum] vir, virī, m. accusative plural: [viros] ager, agrī, m. ablative singular: [agro] fīlius, fīliī, m. vocative singular: [fili] exitium, exitiī, n. vocative singular: [exitium] Don’t forget to add macrons! You can copy and paste letters with macrons into the word with these letters: ā ē ī ō ū

We saw the senator who made many great speeches. We saw the senator whom you met in the forum yesterday. These are the friends to whom the consul gave many gives. The soldiers are present, without whom we cannot win the war. The general, in whom we have placed our trust, has arrived. The boy, the father of whom we helped, is very brave. True or false: based on these sentences, the form of the English relative pronoun “whom” can be used whenever the relative pronoun is not the subject of the clause.

Match the following cases with their function in a sentence:

Give your opinion to the sailors! What word is missing from the following Latin sentence so that it translates the underlined part of the English sentence above? sententiam tuam [nautis] dā! Don’t forget to add macrons! You can copy and paste letters with macrons into the word with these letters: ā ē ī ō ū

poēta puellam laudat. In the Latin sentence above, how do we know the word puellam is the object?

Decline patria, patriae, f. in the singular and plural in the chart below.  Case Singular Plural Nominative [patria1] [patriae3] Genitive [patriae1] [patriarum] Dative [patriae2] [patriis1] Accusative [patriam] [patrias] Ablative [patria2] [patriis2] Vocative [patria3] [patriae4]

Introducing Latin nouns To get started, watch this video on inflection in Latin nouns: