Latin/Adjectives 2 Lesson 1

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Last lesson, it became clear that there needs to be another series of adjective lessons, beyond just the basics. If you want to review those basics, here are the previous adjective lessons: Adjectives Lesson 1 and Adjectives Lesson 2

There are two main kinds of adjectives: 1st/2nd declension adjectives such as bonus, bona, bonum; and 3rd declension adjectives such as gravis, grave. The endings we’ll see in today’s lesson will be the same for the most part; some irregular adjectives of the 1st/2nd declension have -ius endings in the gen. s. and -i endings in the dat. s. Some 3rd declension adjectives have 1 or 3 endings for the nom. s. instead of the usual 2. Most adjectives can be turned into adverbs, which we’ll look at more in a future lesson.

Practice
In the next lessons we’ll continue adding adjectives, and introduce the idea of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Valēte et bonam fortūnam!