nouns

What kind, how many, which one

Case, Number and Gender

First and second declension

yes

After the noun the noun they modify

Before the noun they modify

Attributive Adjectives

Predicate Adjective

Nominative

Because they describe the subject of the sentence.

A noun in the predicate the describes or renames the subject?

Nominative because it refers back to the subject.

Linking verb

Yes

The gender of the nouns must be learned from their declension or from the vocabularies

There are 2 numbers: singular and plural

Singular speaks of one

Plural speaks of more than one

6 in all

We use 5 cases

Nominative: Subject Genitive: Possessive Dative: Indirect Object Accusative: Direct Object Ablative: Object of the Preposition

Ablative or Accusative

By dropping the ending of the Genitive Singular

-a, -ae

Nominative - short a Ablative - long a

1. Know the Nominative, Genitive 2. Determine the gender 3. Add the endings to the stem

Meaning

What the word does in the sentence

Accusative and Nominative

-a, -ae, -ae, -am, -a -ae, -arum, -is, -as, -is

Feminine

Nauta, Nautae (M) -Sailor Agricola, Agricolae (M) -Farmer Poeta, Poetae (M) -Poet Incola, Incolae (M) -Inhabitant

-us (Masculine) -a (Feminine) -um (Neuter)

Vocative

As a noun of direct address

Ongoing, customary, habitual, or interrupted action in the part

Look at the ending of the Genitive Singular

First

Second

If nom. sing. ends in in -um, then the noun is neuter

There is... or There are...

- us (Masculine), -a ( Feminine) - um ( Neuter)

GNC - Gender, Number, and Case

Attributive adjectives

Predicate adjectives

Second conjugation