Latin/Basics 2 Lesson 3

Salvēte omnēs! Welcome back to Latin!

This week’s lesson will finish up the Basics 2 section of this Latin course. It is modeled after lessons 4 and 5 of the Italian Basics 2 skill, but I made the executive decision to leave prepositional phrases until a later time. We will learn to conjugate a few new verbs and introduce one new noun:

New vocabulary
At some point in the near future I hope to create a classified vocabulary list of all the words I’ve used, which I will then link to the directory page and keep updating as new words are introduced.

Grammar notes
Remember that in Latin the conventional word order is subject-object-verb, but that is less important than the endings of the nouns in the sentence, which indicate case. So far we have used nominative case for the subject and predicate nouns (if there is a linking/being verb in the sentence); and we have had a limited number of accusative case nouns, used as direct objects. More formal study of accusative case will be kept for the skills that introduce several nouns belonging to one declension at one time, making it easier to note the patterns.

Practice
That’s all for this week … Next week we’ll go over some basic conversational phrases and maybe soon after that we can start with more systematic study of noun declensions and cases. Bonam fortūnam!