i have Latin 3 but i did not pay attention last year so I so not understand the cases like nominative,genitive

Question

could some one plz explain each case and like explain the endings, plu perfect, imperfect. etc. plz who ever helps me gets 10 points.

Answer 1

In addition to what others have said, there are also all those special uses of the ablative and genitive one has to learn.

My recommendation is that you get yourself on a regular review regimen. Each day, in addtion to your current assignment, go back and work the exercises from your Latin
1 and 2 book. Start with chapter 1, and work your way forward. Think of yourself as taking TWO latin courses concurrently this semester. It's the only way to catch up.

And if you think that getting a quick fix on yahoo answers is the short cut you need, then you're repeating the same kind of mistake you made all of last year :)

Namely, that there is no way to learn Latin without hard work. There is no shortcut.

Answer 2

Wow, that's a lot to do for 10 points... I'm not sure I remember accurately, since Latin was long ago, but I remember some.

Nominative = the subject of the sentence
Genitive = possessive
Dative = indirect object
Accusative = direct object
Ablative = object of preposition

Example: The daughter of the farmer sells travelers chicken in a basket.
Nominative - daughter
Genitive - farmer
Dative - travelers
Accusative - chicken
Ablative - basket

The verb tenses are the same as English verb tenses, so look them up on any grammer website or in any book.

Answer 3

Hello,
You missed your lessons, but there are lessons online that you can download to your mp3 player, and catch up with your missed work.
Head over to the latinum podcast. http://latinum.mypodcast.com
The free textbook can be found here: http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=GJgAAAAAYAAJ

The lessons on the podcast match the book, so just find the stuff in the textbook that you are looking for ( you'll want the first few Adler lessons, by the sound of it) and then listen to those episodes. You can download the whole podcast via itunes.
Good luck.

Answer 4

nominative does the action
accusative has it done to them
(eg "X sees Y" - X is nom, Y is acc)

genitive = of ("the toga of X" - X will be in the gen)
dative = to (if X is in dat, it is "to X")

vocative is the thing spoken to ("Hello, X!" - X is voc)

Look back at last year's notes, and pay attention from now on or the difficulty multiplies as time goes on!