For today’s lesson, we’ll learn how to say “with” or “without”. Both will be in the ablative.<\/p>\n
Ad \u012bnsulam n\u0101vigat cum scaph\u0101<\/strong> = He is sailing to the island with a boat<\/p>\n “Cum” means “with” and the word it modifies will be in the ablative.<\/p>\n Ad\u00a0casam sine\u00a0aqu\u0101\u00a0ambulant<\/strong> = They are walking to the house without water<\/p>\n Here, “sine” serves as the word “without”, and the word that it modifies is in the ablative.<\/p>\n Ad casam cum cib\u014d ambul\u014d<\/strong> = I am walking to the house with food<\/p>\n “Cib\u014d” does not end in “\u0101” like the other words in the ablative.<\/p>\n This is because “cib\u014d” is a second declension noun. Before the introduction of cib\u014d, we’ve been dealing with first declension nouns in the singular ablative. Second declension nouns in the singular\u00a0ablative will end in “\u014d”.<\/p>\n Now try translating these sentences :<\/p>\n (1) Ad scholam sine libr\u014d ambul\u0101s<\/strong><\/p>\n (2) Silvam cum gladi\u014d d\u0113l\u0113tis.<\/strong> (gladius = sword)<\/p>\n (3) P\u012br\u0101t\u0101s sine gladi\u014d n\u014dn pugnat<\/strong><\/p>\n (4) Magistr\u012b ad scholam sine tabul\u0101\u00a0nunquam ambulant<\/strong><\/p>\n Here are the answers :<\/p>\n (1) You are walking to the school without a book<\/p>\n (2) You all are destroying the forest with a sword<\/p>\n (3) He is not fighting the pirates without a sword<\/p>\n (4) The teachers never walk to the school without a writing tablet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For today’s lesson, we’ll learn how to say “with” or “without”. Both will be in the ablative. Ad \u012bnsulam n\u0101vigat cum scaph\u0101 = He is sailing to the island with a boat “Cum” means “with” and the word it modifies will be in the ablative. Ad\u00a0casam sine\u00a0aqu\u0101\u00a0ambulant = They are walking to the house without…<\/p>\n