Ecce Romani Chapter 27 - Notes

Latin I

A. Verbs: Learn these principal parts and meanings:

deverto, devertere, deverti, deversus - to turn aside

faveo, favēre, favi, fauturus (+ dat.) - to support

vinco, vincere, vici, victus - to conquer, win

B. Prefixes: Verbs with prefixes attached to them are called compound verbs.

Memorize these prefixes and their meanings. Note that many come from prepositions.

ab-, abs-, a-, away, from inter-. between

ad-, toward, to per-, through (or simply to emphasize)

circum-, around prae-, in front, ahead

con-, along with, together praeter-, past, beyond

(or simply to emphasize) pro-, prod-, forward

de-, down, down from re-, red-, back, again

dis-, di-, apart, in different directions sub-, under, below

ex-. e-. out, out of trans, -tra-, across

in-, into, in, on

Examples:

Give the meanings of:

1. abesse, adesse, inesse, praeesse, subesse, interesse

2. abire, adire, praeterire, transire, redire, exire, inire, praeire, subire, circumire

3. referre, transferre, conferre, inferre, praeferre, deferre

4. discedere, excedere, incedere, recedere, procedere, intercedere, praecedere

C. Personal Pronouns: I, you (sing.), he, she, it

we, you (pl.), they

	1st	2nd	3rd
			Masc.	Fem.	Neut.
Singular Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative Ablative	ego mei mihi me me	tu tui tibi te te	is eius ei eum eo	ea eius ei eam eā	id eius ei id eo
Plural Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative Ablative	nos nostri nostrum nobis nos nobis	vos vestri vestrum vobis vos vobis	ei eorum eis eos eis	eae earum eis eas eis	ea eorum eis ea eis

Examples:

1. They see you (sing.), you (pl.), him, her, it, them (f.), me, us.

_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

2. He gave it to me, to her, to you (pl.), to us, to him, to them.

_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

3. Marcus stays with me, with her, with you (sing.), with us, with them, with him, with you (pl.).

_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

D. Possessive Adjectives: A possessive adjective shows what belongs to whom. As with all adjectives, it must agree with the noun it modifies in gender, case, and number.

meus, mea, meum my, my own, mine noster, nostra, nostrum our, our own, ours

tuus, tua, tuum your( own), yours (sing.) vester, vestra, vestrum your (own), yours (pl.)

suus, sua, suum his own, her own, its own suus, sua, suum their own

Example: Marcus meam pecuniam habet. Marcus has my money.

Meam shows that the money belongs to me. It agrees with pecuniam.

E. Reflexive Pronouns: A reflexive pronoun refers to the subject, and is the same person or thing as the subject. It has no nominative case and therefore cannot be the subject. It is translated himself, herself, itself, or themselves (depending on the subject).

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-----	-----
Genitive	sui	sui
Dative	sibi	sibi
Accusative	se	se
Ablative	se	se

Example: Stultus miles se vulneravit. Puella se in aquā vidit.

The stupid soldier wounded himself. The girl saw herself in the water.

F. Cum: When the preposition cum is used with pronouns, it is attached to the end of me, te, se, vobis, and nobis, e.g., mecum, tecum, secum, vobiscum, nobiscum. However, it is not attached to forms of is, e.g., cum eo, cum eā, cum eis.