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Introducing Hexameter.co

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iste, ista, istud

The demonstrative iste, ista, istud has a lot in common with its cousin ille, illa, illud: both mean "that", both are declined in an almost identical fashion. But iste carries with it a second person nature that sometimes can be negative. That brother of yours, that video of yours...

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ille, illa, illud

That is a lot like this. This video covers the declension and use the demonstrative ille, illa, illud. That is the word which gives us the il, el, elle, le, la, los, les, and and las of the Romance languages.

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The Imperfect Active Subjunctive

This is the easiest of all Latin conjugations: take the 2nd principal part and just add your personal endings. No ifs, ands, or buts. No exceptions. This video looks a little bit deeper into how the imperfect active subjunctive is actually formed, and knowing what exactly makes up this conjugation will benefit you.

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Present Participles

The Latin present participle puts the NT in present. This video covers the formation and use of the present participle. It's not just all -ings (although that may be the easiest for you).

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An Introduction to the Latin Infinitive

You see infinitives everywhere in Latin, from the second principal part of a verb's dictionary entry to sentences with possum and volo. This video covers the basic of the present active infinitive (yes, that means there are other types of infinitives).

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hic, haec, hoc

*This* video teaches the Latin word for "this" in all of its wonderful forms and parts of speech. hic, haec, hoc is not just a good (and popular) demonstrative adjective, but it has many substantive (noun-like) and adverbial uses.

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Irregular Verbs: possum, posse

The irregular verb possum, posse, is related to that other big irregular verb, sum, esse. Which means that learning how to conjugate possum should be a piece of cake, and definitely not with the pot- calling the irregular verb.... Oh, never mind.

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The Neuter Third Declension

The third declension has nouns of all genders, including the neuter. Unlike the regular masculine/feminine declension, neuter nouns must follow our rules of neuter, which makes their declension slightly different. This video also covers how neuter i-stems are formed.

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Personal Pronouns

I, me, you, we, us, all of these are personal pronouns, and Latin has different forms for these words depending on how they are used in the sentence. Yes, the pronoun is declined too. But don't worry, the forms of ego, tu, nos, and vos aren't so different from each other.

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