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This video shows how you can turn a sentence with a third person singular verb into one with a third person plural verb. It's not just about the verb - you have to make sure that the subject is also plural.
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The Future Perfect Tense is the least used tense in Latin, but it's meaning and formation are quite logical. This video covers the meaning and conjugation of this rather uncommon tense.
active voice indicative mood verbs
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.
neuter nouns third declension
All Latin nouns have a gender - they are masculine, feminine, or even neuter. Why? Sometimes it's because they refer to males or females, but much more frequently the gender of a noun is just one other fact of the word. Sure, it's different from English (and the neuter is foreign to many Romance languages), but not too difficult to master.
feminine masculine neuter nouns
Not all verbs end in -t, and as you move from the first to second to third person, the ending changes with the subject. This video covers the idea of person in verbs and the singular present tense endings, -o, -s, and -t.
active voice indicative mood introduction nouns verbs
The first seven lines of Vergil’s Aeneid, arguably one of the greatest works of Latin literature, declares itself to be a tale of a refugee from the famous city of Troy who brought his old gods to Italy and eventually founded the race of people who would lead to the Romans of Augustus’ time. This video covers the Latin and major themes from these first seven lines.
aeneid
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.
active voice indicative mood irregular verbs verbs
The genitive case is the "of" case in Latin, and its most common use is to show possession, often a noun possessing another noun (statua Claudiae, Claudia's statue), but also an author of a work (carmen Vergilii, the poem of Vergil), or even someone who has a certain quality (virtus Bruti, the virtue of Brutus).
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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.
active voice subjunctive mood verbs
Hey you, learn this case. It's pretty easy, given that for most nouns it's the same as the nominative. The only differences come with words that end in -us, like Brutus, dominus, filius, Sempronius, and meus.
