[bookshare-discuss] Re: [OT] Latin
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:54:17 -0500
Cindy,
Your instincts were correct. The amamis is not right. It should read
amamus, just like salutamus. The entire, first conjugation, present form or
amare reads like this:
Amo
Amas
Amat
Amamus
Amatis
Amant
Your sentenses are essentially correct. Latin uses non instead of "no" in
your last sentence. As I said in my other message, verbs often end up at
the end of sentenses.
Let me know if you need more refreshing information.
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 5:43 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: [OT] Latin
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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