Tag Archives: Pronouns
Popular Quotes Translated to Latin Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Sep 4, 2013
Salvete Omnes, The following quotes are done with the simplest form and are meant to be fun! While, I did not translate certain words such as “damn” and “chocolates” etc.; this was due to a stylistic approach or a lack of an ancient words. Also, it should be noted to those new to Latin that the word…
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…
Possessive & demonstrative pronouns Posted by leire on Apr 12, 2012
Possessive pronouns One holder Several holders 1st person meus, -a, -um noster, nostra, nostrum 2nd person tuus, -a, -um uester, uestra, uestrum 3rd person (reflexive) suus, -a, -um Its main function is the morphemic: they express the category of person and number. The reflexive possessive suus, -a, -um has also a phoric function…
Pronominal morphology & Personal pronouns Posted by leire on Apr 9, 2012
What are pronouns? Traditionally pronouns are defined as words that are used in place of the name. However, this definition is unsatisfactory, in a phrases like: I will go to the movies tomorrow What name replaces “I“? It is obvious that it does no replace any name. ‘I‘ is a first-person morpheme that indicates the…