[bookshare-discuss] Re: [OT] Latin
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:42:56 -0800 (PST)
Thankd, Pratik. It's been over half a century since
I've had Latin. How far off were my sentences about
Sicily and Italy?And can you spare the time to finish
amo,amas, amat? I keep wanting to say amamis, amatis,
amant, but that amamis doesn't sound quite right.
And now I remember the cases, though I didn't remember
vocative. I don't think we learned that. Objectiivie
didn't sound right when I wrote it or mentally said it
-- I knew something was wrong. They do have a lovely
ring to them when recied correctly (smile).
Cindy
--- Pratik Patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, and those interested,
>
> Latin's nouns are categorized into five declensions.
> Each noun may be,
> feminine, masculine, or neuter. Each declension
> noun is divided into a
> singular form and a plural form. Each of the form
> has six cases associated
> with it. Cindy, what you refered to as declensions,
> are actually "cases"
> They are: nominative, genetive, dative, accusative,
> ablative, and vocative.
> You will find that the vocative case is not often
> listed in various charts
> you find as it's the same as the nominative with the
> exception of second
> declension singular, masculine. There is no such
> thing as the objective in
> Latin; English uses objective to refer to a
> combination of the accusative
> and the ablative.
>
> Confused? I won't even go into verbs. I'm not in
> the mood to write a book
> at this particular moment.
>
> Prat
>
>
> Pratik Patel
> Interim Director
> Office of Special Services
> Queens College
> Director
> CUNY Assistive Technology Services
> The City University of New York
> ppatel@xxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy [mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 4:55 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Latin
>
> -All I can remember from high school Latin (and I
> would have liked to take more than two years but
> they
> didn't offer it) is the noun declentions:
> nominative,
> genitvie, dative, ablative and objective (I think).
> And that the plural of um-ending nounss is a, and of
> us-ending nouns is i -- I think. Oh, and, of course,
> Amo, amas, amat, .... I can't remember the rest. And
> what I think was our first lesson, though I may not
> be remembering it correctly: Sicilia insula est .
> Italia no insula est. Italia paeninsula est. Oh--
> and
> I remember that nouns and verbs are inverted; I
> originally wrote the above sentences in the wrong
> order. I hope I've corrected them correctly.
>
> But you did a much better job at translating
> Pratik's
> sentence than I, Kellie. Way to go!
>
> Cindy
>
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