Chapter 8

What is a verb?

a word that expresses an action, state or

condition

What does a verb tell?

what a subject is or does

How many persons do verbs have?

three

How does English indicate the person of

a verb?use of a personal pronoun

person singularplural

1st:

2nd:

3rd:

the person speaking I we

the person spoken to you you all

the person/thing spoken about

he,she, theyit

Latin singular English singular Latin plural English plural

1st: -o (-m) I -mus

we

2nd: -s you -tis you

all

3rd: -t he, she, it -nt theyMickey Mouse Song

You find the stem of the verb by

dropping off the _________ from the

________ __________________ also

known as the ___________________.

-re

2nd principal part

infinitive

Latin -singular English - singular Latin - plural English - plural

1st:

2nd

:

3rd:

amo, amāre - stem __________________

Activity 1 - conjugate

habito, habitāre - stem ________________________

laboro, laborāre - stem ________________________

Latin -singular English - singular Latin - plural English - plural

1st:

2nd

:

3rd:

irregular verb to be

-o, -m = I

-s = you

-mus = we

-tis = you all

ego

tu

nos

vos

Activity 2 - Supply one of the pronouns to serve as the subject of each of the following verbs.

ego tu nos vos

1. _______ excitamus 6. _______ curatis

2. _______ paras 7. _______ vides

3. _______ sedeo 8. _______ intramus

4. _______ timetis 9. _______ advenio

5. _______ sum 10. _______ es

Activity 3 - Translate the following sentences.

1. Cur e villā in silvam saepe ambulatis,

puellae?

2. Pueri quoque in eadem silvā ambulant.

3. Irata sum quod servos sedentes

(sitting) conspicio.

4. Arbores ascendimus quod lupi *nos (us)

terrent. (*nos - if in the middle of sentence is us)

5. "Sexte! Marce!" clamat Cornelia. "Cur

non surgitis?"

6. "Eheu!" inquit Davus. "Semper ego

laboro; semper pueri me vexant; ad

Britanniam redīre volo."

7. Omnia paramus quod Romam hodie

redimus.

8. Servi in villā sedent; neque Aureliam

audiunt neque respondent, nam defessi sunt.

9. Nondum lucet et Marcus surgere non vult.

10. Necesse non est iterum clamāre.

What is meant by direct address?

directly speaking to a person or persons

What is the name for the case used for direct address?

vocative

The ___________ case is just like the ____________

case except for ______ declension nouns such as

____________,____________, or ____________. They

change their ________ ending to an ________. Nouns

like ______________ will drop the ________ and end in

_______ in the ______________ case.

vocative nominative

2nd

Marcus Sextus servus

-us -e

Cornelius -us

-i vocative

"Sexte! Marce!" clamat Cornelia.

"Corneli!" clamat Aurelia.

Activity 4 - Give the Latin in the vocative case for the underlined words.

1. "Marcus, Cornelia, come here!"

_____________ _____________

2. "Come here, boys!"

_____________

3. "Come here, my son!"

_____________