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Noun Adjective agreement First and Second declension adjectives Examples of Vocabulary: multus, multa much, many magnus, magna large, great maximus, maxima largest, greatest parvus, parva small Why are there two forms? The first one is masculine and the second is feminine. The adjective has to be the same gender as the noun. If the noun is masculine, the adjective must be masculine. If the noun is feminine. the adjective must be feminine. In the vocabulary, you are given two forms: the first is masculine and the second is feminine. So, ‘large island is magna insula. (both words are feminine. ‘Large islands’ but large place is magnus locus. Paterfamilias tōtam familiam curat optimam cenam parare debetis Ītalia quoque multum populum habet. Statim mater omnes ancillas vocat Possum and complementary infinitive Possum Possum means ‘to be able’ and it is what is called a compound of sum. If you remember the verb ‘to be’ then the verb ‘to be able’ is easy! sum - I am sumus - we are es - you are estis- you are est - he is sunt - they are Now, to get the verb ‘to be able’, add pos- in front of all words that begin with -s and -t in front of everything else: possum - I am able possumus - we are able potes - you are able potestis- you are able potest - he is able possunt - they are able The imperfect works the same way. Let’s review the imperfect of the verb “to be”: eram- I was eramus - we were eras - you were eratis- you were erat - he was erant - they were Therefore, the verb to be able is poteram- I was able poteramus - we were able poteras - you were able poteratis- you were able poterat - he was able poterant - they were able (pot- is added in front of all of the forms of the verb to be since they all start with -e.) The Infinitive An Infinitive is ‘to’ + a verb. In English . . . to run, to laugh, to sing, to dance In Latin, the infinitive is the second principal part. It will always end in -re: āre, ēre, ere, or īre. Amare - to love ambulare - to walk In English, we use the infinitive with certain verbs, and Latin does the same. When translating the infinitive, always use 'to _____' : ludere cupimus -> We want to play The infinitive in Latin will always end in an -re and will always be the second principal part of the verb. You will also notice that each conjugation has its own unique vowel preceding the -re: 1st conjugation paro, parare 2nd conjugation moneo, monēre 3rd conjugation rego, regere 4th conjugation audio, audire The verb to be able and the Complementary Infinitive We are learning the verb to be able and infinitives together because you see them together often. “I am able” doesn’t make sense by itself. I am able to do something. The verb possum is followed by a complementary infinitive because the infinitive COMPLETES the meaning of the main verb. possum ambulare - I am able to walk, I can walk potest cantare - he is able to sing, he can sing Iussa imperatoris ob clamorem audīre non poteramus. We were not able (non poteramus) to hear (audire - the infinitive) the orders of the general because of the noise.