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You Want to Learn Latin: Keep Calm and Read On! Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Feb 5, 2014
So you want to learn Latin? Or, are you already learning Latin? So, let’s look at a sentence: Sed debebatur, ut opinor, fatis tantae origo urbis maximique secundum deorum opes imperii principium. (Livy 1.4) So is your initial reaction is to panic, run for hills, and give up? Well, Don’t! Five Tips that will save you…
How to Survive the Ablative Case Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Oct 30, 2013
The Survival Guide to the Uses of the Ablative There are many cases within the Latin language including: the Nominative, the Accusative, the Genitive and the Dative. The last case is call the ablative which has many functions and purpose. This guide consists of all the popular and somewhat unpopular uses of the ablative…
100 Most Common Words in Latin Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Oct 9, 2013
The 100 Most Common Written Words in Latin Learning these common words will give you a huge leg up when reading, writing, speaking, and listening to Latin, but remember that most of these words will have various forms due to their cases (Accusative, Genitive, Dative or Ablative) or function in a sentence or clause…
How One Latin Sentence Can Teach You SO Much Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Sep 25, 2013
The foundation story of Rome can be found in Book I of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) (Literally: From the City having been founded). Thus, Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita begins with the founding of Rome and progress to his modern day. Let us attempt to translate one sentence…
Brittany Britanniae, I presume? Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Jul 10, 2013
Salvete Omnes! (Hello Everyone!), I am so honored and excited to become part of Transparent Language’s Latin Blog. So, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Brittany, but for this blog I have adopted the epithet of “Brittany Britanniae” (which means Brittany “of Britain” and this is the singular genitive form of the feminine noun “Britannia” or…
Non-personal verbal forms Posted by leire on Jun 15, 2012
The verb forms which do not have personal ending are known as non-personal verbs or noun-verbs. These verb forms simultaneously have nouns’ characteristics (they are nouns or adjectives) and verbs’ characteristics (tense, voice…). In Latin we have three verbal nouns (infinitive, gerund and supine) and two verbal adjectives (participle and gerundive). Morphology is as follows…
Relative, interrogative-indefinite & other pronouns Posted by leire on Apr 26, 2012
Relative pronouns Singular Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter Nominative qui quae quod qui quae quae Accusative quem quam quod quos quas quae Genitive cuius quorum quarum quorum Dative cui quibus Ablative quo qua quo quibus The relative pronoun’s only function is the phoric, as it always refers to the antecedent, with which…