The Beginner's Latin Exercises. Adjectives of 1st Class, Three Terminations, -er, -a, -um.
TODO
- Exercise A shows what has to be learnt and written in preparation for the next exercises (and future lessons).
- Exercise B contains viva voce Exercises.
- Exercise C (from Latin) and Exercise D (from English) contain the sentences to be translated, either orally or in writing.
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REQUIREMENTS
Vocabulary 7. First Class Adjectives, -er, -a, -um.
- tener, -a, -um, tender.
- miser, -a, -um, wretched.
- pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum, beautiful.
- niger, nigra, nigrum, black.
- ruber, rubra, rubrum, red.
- sacer, sacra, sacrum, sacred.
- aeger, agra, agrum, sick, ill.
- columba, -ae, f., a dove.
- ala, -ae, f., a wing.
- numerus, -i, m., number.
- verus, -a, -um, true.
EXERCISES
Exercise A
- Learn Vocabulary 5-7, how to decline tener and niger.
- Decline sacer and miser fully.
- Decline together filia pulchra; niger servus; sacrum donum.
- Parse teneras filia; nigrum equum; puerorum aegrorum.
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Exercise B
1. Put the proper form of niger before the following nouns, and read thus: niger equus, a black horse:
- equus; sends (DAT); puerum.
- tauri (NOM); nasi (GEN); feminae (DAT).
- metalla; oculos; portarum.
- scutorum; spinam; vini.
- apros; pennarum; puellas.
Exercise C: read and translate from Latin.
- Femina aegram filiam amat.
- Regina coronam pulchram habet.
- Servi acutos cultros habent.
- Aurum et argentum metalla splendida sunt.
- Oculi puellarum sunt nigri et pulchri.
- Oculi pulchrae puellae sunt magni.
- Filia reginae aegra et misera est.
- Puella rosas rubras et pulchras habet.
- Columbae meae alas albas habent.
- Servus taurum nigrum acuto gladio occidit.
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Exercise D: read and translate from English.
- The scholar has many good books.
- Red roses are beautiful.
- The gold of the temple is sacred.
- My dove has white feathers.
- The master loves (his) sick scholar.
- The gifts of the temple are sacred.
- Doves are beautiful and tender.
- The number of islands is great.
- A true friend is the gift of God.
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CREDITS
C.Sherwill Dawe, The Beginner's Latin Exercises Book, 1880, Rivington, Waterloo Place, London; read the book on archive.org.
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