Basic Latin Word Order

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" oh. he's greeting him. oH HE'S BEATING HIM UP- "

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Beata K practice is also an essential part of remembering any language and a linguist I know suggests saying what you are doing in any language in which you are or have learned on a daily basis so you do not fall out of practice with it.

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Had mine been as engaging I wouldn't have RUN from Latin after just that first year!)

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"oh he's beating him up" lol. great channel, love these vids!

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[@Mac2point1]

totally agree

[@SamoriahGames]

Latin word order is especially interesting in sacred music. The fact that it is sung really does stress the "suspense", as it takes longer to reveal the message in this manner than simply reading. A personal favorite is the line "quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est" from the Magnificat prayer. Beautiful when sung, because the clause "fecit mihi magna" is satisfying just enough on its own, and the revelation of its subject, "qui potens est et sanctum nomen eius" is just.. wow :)

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I'm currently in my second year of latin and I never really understood a thing, but now I do thanks to you!

[@betterhealthbetterlife4912]

You have explained this superbly. Other have not. Thank you. You are a natural teacher :) Peace.

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You weren't joking when you said this was a *basic* tutorial.

I'm brazilian, a translator, I speak portuguese, english and spanish Latin just kind of showed up as a requirement in my college and the teacher's methods are not intresting because not only is ther not a review of the basic grammar, but they already expect you to know all the noun forms in latin just because there are variations in portuguese and it made a huge mess in my mind and I couldn't understand a thing my friends would argue that it'd be easier to focus on learning it from portuguese, but I like to take things slow and I appreciate your rythm so, so much. it all finally makes sence to me. thank you for uploading these videos. I have an exam today and before watching your videos, I knew nothing. gratias

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Yes, you are like the math teacher of the Khan Academy fame. Thank you for sharing your natural gift of teachjng with us Latin students.

[@fiorelaakciu3536]

I know it sounds weird, but I looove this language, I wish it would still be spoken somewhere besides church, so that I could easily learn and use it to communicate with other people, it sounds so powerful and mysterious.

[@matthewlaurence3121]

It was the learned language in most of the schools and universities until about 70 tears ago (after 1945), it was still compulsory in most prestigious schools until about 40-50 years ago, in the British Model of education, and many universities made it a prerequisite for studying Jurisprudence, Law and Medicine until fairly recently. Its disappearance from most syllabi (a Latin plural), came down to a lack of popularity, as sentiment issuing from Latin's lack of practical purpose in a modern world that used English and French (the latter for business, initially) as a common tongue for communication, as well as a perception that it was elitist and not progressive. It is still an option in many high schools in Europe: France, Italy, Germany, et cetera. (another Latin phase)

[@iberius9937]

Agree with you 100%.

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Agree, but you might accidentally summon demon in the process of saying " hello, how are you". Lol

[@juanme555]

"Fiorela" Doesn't sound weird at all.

[@c-bass9968]

Salvē! Quid agit?

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[@latintutorial]

Thanks! Yes, I have another video on imperatives. Just search "imperative Latin" and it should be the first video on the list.

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+Vanessa Alicea what website do you use for elementary latin? do you have to pay?

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+Jeremy Ramirez if you want to learn Latin, that's great! I recommend a book called Wheelocks Latin. It is able to be used by yourself, and there are plenty of resources to go with it. It starts out with very basic Latin and goes on to teach very difficult Latin.

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The best Latin videos online great job man appreciate it.

[@김경운-l8f]

The grammar sounds similar as Korean or Japanese. They are basically S-O-V and they have post positional particle which is attached to nouns to show what the noun's rule in the sentences

[@ryanw8509]

2015년에 1해 동안 라틴말 공부했어요. 근데 지금은 한국어를 공부하고 있어요.| (I studied Latin for one year, but now I'm studying Korean) Latin was helpful when I started Korean because It helped me understand the particles better. The first thing I thought when I learned about the basic Korean particles was "oh, so it's like Latin then."

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Thank you so much! This is really helpful in teaching my son - great little suplement to Latina Christiana or any beginner Latin program Very nice that the videos are short videos, for short attention spans.

[@latintutorial]

Thanks, and good luck to your son!

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These video teach me more than my online lessons.

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Your light humour is so enlightening with your articulate teaching!

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[@strangehominid]

I've been learning Latin for years and years (okay- well, for four years but that still is quite some time), and have just realized how poor I am at actually translating sentences (I've been translating Aeneid). Translating itself really took a back seat to learning the grammar and vocabulary, so just delving into the basics again has really helped my translations! Thank you!

[@austinhunter1586]

Damn.. The end though.. That was a beautiful explanation. You truly are one of the few with a real mastery of english.

[@ashwin.swaminathan]

Extremely beautifully put! Arguably, the best aspect of Latin is its flexible word order which enables us to easily transfer the emphasis in a sentence. Moreover, composing a poem would be incredibly facile as individual lines could be rearranged so as to rhyme with one another.

[@Ciprian-IonutPanait]

0:38 english has a fixed word order because it could not maintain its gendered objects. Languages that managed to do so have a flexible word order especially in written form as word order can be used to make the sentence more expresive

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Thanks!

[@analuizasilva5191]

This idea of suspense is a lovely way to understand Latin

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A great videos. Thanks for the hard work.

[@rhythmharmony2923]

The advantage of being German is, that this feels familiar: The slave | greets | the mistress. = Der Sklave | grüßt | die Herrin. Die Herrin | grüßt | der Sklave. Es grüßt | der Sklave | die Herrin. Es grüßt | die Herrin | der Sklave. ( Die Herrin | der Sklave | grüßt. Der Sklave | die Herrin | grüßt. ) In main sentences, we prefer having the verb in the middle. The verb at the beginning needs an the pronoun ‘es’ (=it) before it. That is even more common than a sentence beginning with the direct object, I believe. The verb at the end of main sentences is rarely found. Therefore, those examples are in brackets. In German, subordered sentences can be recognised by looking at its verb: it always stands at its end. One wants to prevent confusion.

[@papacrispy6239]

You helped me learn more about Latin in five minutes than what my teacher could do in three years. Et Latine adiuvisti me discere magis de quam in quinque minuta, quod mihi magistra facere In tribus annis.

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[@SirWilliamKidney]

I am so glad they got rid of the sound effects at the beginning! Great videos I'm really enjoying these!

[@latintutorial]

Some people love the original intro sound (which preceded the musical Hamilton’s use of the same bit) because it serves as a sound check!

[@latintutorial]

Some people love the original intro sound (which preceded the musical Hamilton’s use of the same bit) because it serves as a sound check!

[@SirWilliamKidney]

@@latintutorial It upsets my cats haha :P

[@tspark1071]

in that sense, Korean Hangeul has such flexibility similar to Latin. Servus salutat dominam, Dominam servus salutat. It uses particles for nominative and accusative etc. SOV order is seen in french, spanish, and Korean, and Japanese etc

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I am enjoying the clarity of these videos.

[@Inubris]

I'm glad to see we're finally getting to sentence structure, I've wondered about this until I started watching these videos. You can tell I've always had a particular intrest in latin by my youtube user name.

[@elsewhere1222]

Until now never had I any interest in learning Latin, yet you got me hooked on the very first sentence you uttered. "The slave greets his mistress". Now I can't wait to devourer more of your videos in hopes of learning more about this Mistress and her slave, and well or course more Latin ^.~

[@pqbdwmnu]

Work like this does it?

[@ButacuPpucatuB]

Thank you for the excellent explanation. I have subscribed and rung the bell!!

[@yeetlethebeetle4297]

Nice video. i was always taught that the order is nominative, accusative (as long as it's used as the direct object), then verb. Glad to see that it's common.

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This was the best instructive video I've ever seen

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Wow I just found this channel and I must say keep up the good work! you have a great style and are very understandable

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Thumbnail gave me all the information I needed, thanks.

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Very well done video, amazingly helpful

[@Igor-ug1uo]

Now, every time any of my English speaking friends asks me why in Russian I say literally "I you love", I'll send them to this video. :)

[@NiCaNaMex]

😊Or, point them to Yoda...or older English!!! People need to read old stuff and they'll get it!

[@valeriyaaslanov3254]

Я тебя люблю

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Hi, I wish I had discovered your channel earlier! Love it!

[@latintutorial]

Yes, the subjunctive.

[@AdamBehnam]

I've never found a more entertaining video about word order. Th anks 😃

[@latintutorial]

Um, yay?

[@AdamBehnam]

@@latintutorial yay yay

[@yeralmuzika]

Oh my god, so the main sentence structure in Latin is S+O+V. It's just like the Korean sentence structure lol, this made life much easier :p

[@ChrisSmith-um8uj]

It's olso the same with Japanese

[@yeralmuzika]

+Chris Smith Do you study Japanese...? :D

[@thomasjansen5921]

Chris Smith it's the most common word order

[@DanksterPaws]

Me crying as a native V S O speaker

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[@galegocossia5506]

Deus meu, que aula interessante!

[@HughvanZyl]

IDK if the last statement about it being mysterious is right. My family speak Afrikaans, which uses s-o-v and they say they don't think about the difference. I think it depends on your native language, if you are used to s-v-o then s-o-v will be mysterious otherwise you may not even notice it.

[@cactusmanofdestiny3708]

“Iocus” Ah, a joke. I was feeling bored, anyways. Perhaps this will make my day! “es” Oh, he’s just calling me a joke. **Sigh**

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This is excellent. Thanks!

[@artawhirler]

Very clear explanation. Thanks!

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Love the way you explain these! :)

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OMG thanks. Life Saver.

[@isaachiew676]

so if you know japanese, chances are you are easier learning in latin because japanese also puts verb at behind.

[@Esfrwms_diary]

How should say sodium hydrocitrate for injections in Latin? Also mint pepper leaves.

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SO helpful thank you so much!!!!!

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Glad it was helpful!

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I'm learning latin to recite curses to scare my bullies

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Hi, Jeremy! Sorry I didn't see this comment before. I don't use a website for Latin. I listen to all of LatinTutorial to learn from. This is the only resource that I use besides my Wheelocks Latin book.

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Salut. Excellent, merci ! This is perfect way to start learning latin, the syntaxe.

[@5oclock_Charlie]

3:20 Oh so this is where the sort of legend, that word order isn't too relevant to Latin as it's the ending that is important.. This really helps. So You could use the word order of english in latin, IN THEORY, would work..

[@latintutorial]

You *could*, and there are many times when Latin does use SVO (English) word order. It’s just that there are plenty more times when Latin doesn’t! Flexibility, my friend, is the key.

[@antivirusantivirus3139]

Thanks. You are teaching classical pronunciation. There is a medieval pronunciation. Does it matter what pronunciation to learn?

[@johnthebull]

Verbs could also be used as punctuation to end a sentence since Romans did not have periods :)

[@ultimatecrusader3493]

What about when we have an indirect object or adverbila words or phrases

[@latintutorial]

Often the indirect object will come before the direct object, but in reality, word order is fluid. The main point of this video is to introduce beginners to Latin's putting the verb at the end of the sentence.

[@copyplanter]

I loved the mystery novel thing hahaha, it wil help me out. Thanks a lot!!

[@jayvoe7275]

I just feel in love with Latin

[@franascul]

Thank you for this video. It's been really helpful!

[@christianc7107]

How do I know if a word corresponds to the nominative or vocative case since both have the same endings; as well as the genitive and dative case?

[@latintutorial]

Context for the nominative or vocative. It'll usually be the nominative, especially if the verb is in the third person (ending in -t or -nt). If it's a second person verb, then you can consider the vocative. And for the genitive or dative, it's all about context.

[@christianc7107]

@@latintutorial How can I know if I am either saying "The sailor's prudence defeat the tempest" or "The prudence defeat the sailor's tempest" in "Nautae prudentia procellam superat". Is the genitive case always part of the subject or can it be the object's?

[@christianc7107]

@@latintutorial I know this video is for the basics but I also get confused in "Nautae prudentia procellae violentiam superat" (I am taking these sentences from a text book) Have you posted a video for complex sentences?

[@latintutorial]

Ambiguity like this happens a lot in Latin, sometimes even by design. Context would really help out in this situation, and we need to keep in mind that in most, if not all, situations, we have the context necessary to determine if nautae qualifies prudentia or procellam (especially if the sentence were written prudentia nautae procellam superat). But when the sentence is written thus, nautae prudentia procellam superat, you should be confident to put nautae with prudentia rather than procellam.

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[@gentryhaney4713]

I like S-O-V better now Because ppl can't interrupt u bc they have no clue of wat ur about to say as in wat action the subject did to the object lol it's like there's a (cat and dog- and now theres no disruption bc nobody understands yet lol

[@gregmarra9457]

Gentry Haney That's true, however if the sentence is long and complicated it can be a challenge to find the verb! I know this from experience with Armenian, another Indo-European language

[@unflexian]

My language has every ordering _except_ for S-O-V, so it seems really unnatural to me.

[@yuvneesh]

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[@FlamingAnimation]

Interesting, in Finnish you do the exact same thing. As in "Servus dominam salutat" is "Orja tervehtii emäntää" and in Finnish the subject stays the same, but the object of the action changes by receiving an extra vowel as in 'emäntä' becomes 'emäntää'. You can even change the order of the words and still would be comprehensible. "Tervehtii orja emäntää" or "Emäntää orja tervehtii" are just as viable as "Orja tervehtii emäntää" although this may sound a bit silly for a native speaker. Only real difference is that the verb changes as well, depending on who did what to whom, where, how and when...

[@TeamMojamRo]

The Ghastly Varangian most languages have the SOV system.

[@atouloupas]

The Ghastly Varangian Same in Greek! You can say "Ο υπηρέτης χαιρετά την δεσποινίδα" (SVO - main word order in mod. Greek) or "Ο υπηρέτης την δεσποινίδα χαιρετά" (SOV) or "Χαιρετά ο υπηρέτης την δεσποινίδα" (VSO), iit makes sense however you say it. That's why grammatical cases are awesome.

[@vztezcreenrij8910]

finnish is extremely synthetic. lots of declensions for one word.

[@user-ge4uk9ui8y]

perkele

[@arjunverma963]

how do we discern these two sentences in Latin, 1.the mistress is greeting the slave. 2.the slave is greeting the mistress. they have different meaning yet they can be written in the same way in Latin.

[@latintutorial]

In fact they should look different in Latin, because the one doing the action will be in the nominative case (domina, servus), while the one being greeted is in the accusative case (dominam, servum).

[@jaymixo607]

the "brūtus in tablīnō amīcum salūtant" example had me laughing like dead

[@JanesDream222]

Oh the Suspense aspect! I like it, I like it!

[@ngochingsiu6151]

dominus, i is 2nd declension noun, shouldn't it be dominum?

[@latintutorial]

ngoching siu domina, dominae (1st declension), mistress, is the feminine form of dominus.

[@TheDocfri]

"Köle (slave/servus) efendiyi (dominam/mistress) selamlıyor (greets/salutat)" Turkish too follows the Subject-Object-Verb so i quess it will be relatively easier.

[@agronsalihi7339]

Love this channel..👍

[@Katharsis540]

Servus. V is a v but in Salvete is a w. Do explain this rule?

[@markpallottinojr]

Seriously wish I could take a class from you. Nowhere near Maine though.

[@cocteaupvssylice]

To my understanding, there's really no need for word order in a sentence in Latin since the ending of the word indicates the function it has in the sentence. But it can also make a mess when reading a long sentence, I have to read the whole sentence first and interpret which word serves which function and then get the meaning of the whole sentence, which takes longer time than reading English where you understand the meaning as you read along the sentence.

[@fayrouza7415]

I needed this so much 👏🏻✨

[@Inubris]

Spanish has the conditional conjugation (like I could or I should), does latin have these as well? (and sorry about the mistake, not quite used to the keyboard)

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Im teaching myself latin and its really hard to find free things so thanks very much

[@hasanshokor3255]

I really love learning Latin but I couldn't get any of the words or grammar, I am lost. How can I start learning.

[@Ciprian-IonutPanait]

That is why writters did it but the difference in prevalence of sov and svo was not that great to make it a rule

[@Wandering_Rocks]

What font is used in the video? Great stuff by the way.

[@latintutorial]

Hoefler Text

[@ht.2003]

this taught me more in 5 minutes than my prof has taught me in 10 weeks

[@Ambitious_Ink_Biz]

Thank you for uploading.

[@ldmtag]

I'M SHOCKED how Latin inflections are ALMOST THE SAME as Russian! I mean, ok, not the same, but super intuitive and tracable, like our "ish"/"esh" is really a funny way to say "is"/"es", and both are 2nd singular, Latin "et" is the same as our "yot"/"it" - SOOO SIMILAR!!!

[@themadmagi]

I have been learning Latin using Famila Romana and Visual Latin; one thing I wonder as I am reading. Do you as you translate to english rearrange the words into English order, or do you keep them in Latin order?

[@latintutorial]

You should really strive to read Latin in the order it is presented - so don't rearrange the words into typical English order. I know this is hard, but it's really important, and it gets easier the more you read. Remember, Latin isn't an English word puzzle that needs to be solved by rearranging words and substituting meanings, it's a language. So you lose so many things by not reading the Latin and trying hard to understand it as is. Good luck!

[@themadmagi]

+latintutorial thank you! That is what I have been trying to do! Good to know I am on the right track!

[@aarondelgado3421]

I agree with the answer presented. It is not a good idea to rearrange the sentence in Latin into typical English word order. It is because once you attack more complicated Latin sentences, you will face the issues of identifying principal and subordinate clauses if you attempt to rearrange them into English word order.

[@cer0s]

Excellent man thank you

[@amauroalva2081]

I am writing a short academic essay in which I will describe the various components/aspects of my primary project &c. Can anyone who is knowledgeable in Latin/romance languages please assist me in ensuring that I use the proper title for my essay? What would the title “REVOLUTION STADIUM” translate to in Latin? And how is it written in English? I used iTranslate to get a translation, but the translation simply reads the same. Please help, I would very much appreciate any & all the feedback &c. Thank you for your consideration

[@majkus]

Why am I reminded of Twain's quote about long German sentences ending with a verb: "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that in the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

[@quintincastro7430]

I can kind of read Latin but u want to be better at it so I can learn things like Spanish and French more easily but what I can read is salūtat which as I see as salute like in the army so something is greeting something then servus Wich I see as Serv inside servus or servant and then dominam and I see dom inside it like inside dominant so what u can tell from that is that is says the servant greats the dominant or leader

[@mateiionescu6832]

+latintutorial I saw another video of yours and I wanted to post a comment but they were disabled. In the video of indo european languages, you said only 4 out of the 5 major latin languages ( French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese). There was also Romanian, but I assume that you did not have enough space to write Romanian too.

[@latintutorial]

+Matt 1503 That it correct.

[@KDJi399s9cd0]

I really like the way you sound, you should be a professional narrator :)