9.2 Review: Forms — Epoché
What you will be able to do Name the case and number of any noun form you meet. Name the person, number, tense and voice of any verb form you meet. Produce a named form of a word from its dictionary entry. Measure how much of volume 2 is actually there. Read sentences like Mihi non malo est. [68] — I don't mind it. — without looking anything up. Prerequisites : lesson 9.1 — the sounds and the cognates. The long one. Sixty questions on the forms of volume 2, in three sets of twenty: recognising nouns, recognising verbs, and producing forms to order. Nothing open, and no going back. A warning about how to take it. Several of the answers are ambiguous and that is the point. Latin endings collide, and a form that could be two things is not a trick question: it is the ordinary condition of reading, and the correct answer names both. Where an answer below gives two possibilities, give both to score the mark. Twenty nouns and adjectives Name the case and number. Give every possibility. # Form Case and number 1 patris 2 corpora 3 manuum 4 diēī 5 urbem 6 vītae 7 nōminī 8 rēgum 9 marī 10 fīliābus 11 bonōrum 12 omnium 13 hōrā 14 pedēs 15 lūcis 16 mēnsibus 17 montem 18 rēbus 19 animō 20 vīribus Twenty verbs Name the person, number, tense and voice. Two of these are deponent and one is defective. # Form Person, number, tense, voice 21 dīcit 22 dīxērunt 23 scrībēbat 24 lēgerat 25 audīmus 26 amāverit 27 docēbō 28 tacuit 29 quaerunt 30 crēdidī 31 putābant 32 loquitur 33 oblītus est 34 meminit 35 vocāris 36 rogātur 37 dūcimur 38 capiēbantur 39 erit 40 potuērunt Twenty forms to produce Write the form asked for. Long marks are not required but are not wrong. # Give Answer 41 the genitive singular of corpus 42 the accusative plural of manus 43 the dative singular of diēs 44 the ablative plural of fīlia 45 the nominative plural of mare 46 the genitive plural of urbs 47 the third plural perfect of dīcō 48 the first singular imperfect of sum 49 the infinitive of possum 50 the singular imperative of dūcō 51 the second plural present of audiō 52 the perfect participle of scrībō 53 the third singular future of amō 54 the present passive infinitive of vocō 55 the first plural perfect of veniō 56 the comparative of bonus 57 the superlative of bonus 58 the adverb of bonus 59 the four principal parts of ferō 60 the plural of vīs Twenty sentences Twenty sentences you have not seen. For each one, before translating, name the case of every noun and the person and tense of every verb. Then translate. Score a mark for each sentence in which you parsed every word correctly — not for each sentence you translated correctly. It is possible to translate a Latin sentence right for the wrong reason, and this section is meant to catch that. # Latin English 1 Bibliotheca libros habet. [1] The library has books. 2 Felem meam amo. [2] I love my cat. 3 Porta iam aperta est. [3] The door is open now. 4 Portae clausae erant. [4] The gates were closed. 5 Nunc non esurio. [5] At the moment I am not thirsty. 6 Dives facta est. [6] She became rich. 7 In hospitio manebat. [7] He stayed in the hotel. 8 Uno abhinc mense emi. [8] I bought it a month ago. 9 Haec cista gravissima est. [9] This box is very heavy. 10 Illa penna carior est quam haec. [10] That pen is more expensive than this one. 11 Hi pisces coloris eiusdem sunt. [11] These fish are the same color. 12 Ubi soror tua nunc habitat? [12] Where does your sister live now? 13 Quotidie mane expergiscitur. [13] He wakes up early every day. 14 Usus magister est optimus. [14] Practice makes perfect. 15 Fessa sum et domum ire volo. [15] I am tired and I want to go home. 16 Linguam Gallicam tres annos didicimus. [16] We have been studying French for three years. 17 Speculum cecidit, quia grave est. [17] The mirror has fallen because it is heavy. 18 Cur me in tenebris osculatus es? [18] Why did you kiss me in the darkness? 19 Recordarisne cognomen eius? [19] Do you remember her last name? 20 Narrate mihi de somniis vestris. [20] Tell me about your dreams. Score yourself Four scores of twenty. Add the first three for a mark out of sixty. Nouns, out of 20. Below 14 means the declension tables need going over — and the fastest way is not to re-read volume 2 but to take any page of volume 5 and parse every noun on it. Verbs, out of 20. Below 14 has one usual cause, and it is the perfect: the forms are irregular in the stem and regular in the ending, and learners try to learn them as wholes. Learn the endings, then the stems separately. Production, out of 20. This is the hardest of the three and the least important. Recognising a form is what reading needs; producing one is what writing needs, and writing Latin is not an aim of this phase. Below 10 is acceptable; below 5 means you are recognising by shape rather than by rule, which will stop working in the second phase. Parsing the sentences, out of 20. The one that predicts how the second phase will go. Below 12 means slow down: parse every word of every sentence you read for the next month, even when you can see the meaning without it. Out of sixty, overall. Above 45 is a comfortable pass. Between 30 and 45 is the ordinary result at the end of a first phase and is nothing to worry about. Below 30 means one specific volume has not gone in, and the three separate scores above will say which — that is what they are for. Practice Read them aloud. Read the twenty sentences aloud before you parse them. The stress will often tell you the vowel length, and the vowel length will often tell you the case. The ambiguous ones. Find the five forms in the first two sets that have more than one answer, and say what disambiguates each in a real sentence. Two deponents. Find them in the second set and say how you knew. Build a table. From memory, write out the full singular and plural of one noun of each of the five declensions. Your own list. Write down the forms you got wrong and nothing else. Translate. Haec sunt omnia, quibus opus est mihi. [61] Say it in Latin