Parts of Speech in Latin

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2 ай бұрын

With the basics of phonetics covered, it's time to start talking about Latin grammar. This may seem terrifying, but let's start very simply by defining the parts of speech as they will be used in Latin. You are probably familiar with most of these, things like nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Let's make sure we are on the same page about this concept before diving into the tough stuff!
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@Breakfast_of_Champions 2 ай бұрын

The thing with Latin is the word order in a sentence isn't fixed at all. You absolutely need the grammar to make sense of many texts.

@mcv2178 2 ай бұрын

Mmmm, morphology!

@gaboelexo 2 ай бұрын

Correcto mondo

@corlunae 2 ай бұрын

While that can be a problem at first, it also gives you a lot of freedom when dealing with the language. Its a great feature for poetry for example. But as a rule of thumb: Always look for the predicate of the main sentence first (what was done), then build the sentence around it (who did it -> noun; who did the noun do it to -> object; etc). Once you get the drift of it, its rather easy, even for lengthy sentences like Cicero's stuff.

@thepitch7346 2 ай бұрын

We have the same freedom of words in sentences in Ukrainian language. U can build it anyhow and one will get it @@corlunae

@peterwyetzner5276 Ай бұрын

@@corlunaeI've translated some books from the Renaissance. Some authors at the time were not interested in writing in the purely classical style of Cicero or Sallust; and produced much longer sentences built on a series of dependent clauses nested one within the other that have to be unsnarled.

@SlicedZucchini 2 ай бұрын

I took, and could speak, Latin so many decades ago in high school; this needs to be a short video on the TikTok app or Instagram, so these kids nowadays can learn how to speak properly or at the bare 🐻 minimum somewhat coherently hehe

@AnarchoReptiloidUa 2 ай бұрын

Дуже цікаво. Коментар на підтримку відео та каналу. ❤❤❤

@HUBBLE724 2 ай бұрын

brief

@ryantaylorr18 2 ай бұрын

Dave, is there any possibility that you will ever talk about the people who reject germ theory? Would love to hear rebuttals of the most common arguments from you

@lancesclone 2 ай бұрын

Hey Prof. Dave! I was wondering if I could make subtitles in my native language for your academic tutorials and debunks as I wanted to introduce your channel to my country's audience. Thanks! And apologies if my English is a bit stale.

@ProfessorDaveExplains 2 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely, feel free to email me srt files for any videos in any language and I will promptly upload them.

@ianw7898 2 ай бұрын

_"And apologies if my English is a bit stale."_ It's better than a lot of English speakers in Britain and elsewhere can manage!

@lancesclone 2 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains OMG, Thanks professor!

@lancesclone 2 ай бұрын

@@ianw7898 Oh wow, I've never heard anyone say that to me, thanks, my friend!😅

@riannapilled Ай бұрын

That’s a really wonderful thing of you to do

@tianlemeng2332 2 ай бұрын

can you please make a video about Bessel function thanks

@isaacm1929 2 ай бұрын

So its just a easy version of PT/BR... Good thing I was forced to learn that in school!

@bjrn559 Ай бұрын

@ProfessorDaveExplains when i look at your playlist for latin, 16 of the 21 videos are unavailable at my location (Denmark). Not sure whether you or youtube have done so. I assume you already know either way, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. A bit disappointed. Also had the realization that it probably happens a lot and I just never realize.

@ProfessorDaveExplains Ай бұрын

They are released on a schedule, don't worry you'll get them all.

@bjrn559 Ай бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplainsoh okay, I misunderstood that completely. Thanks for the response and the content.

@ianw7898 2 ай бұрын

For what it's worth, Old English (Anglo-Saxon) was highly inflected, and word order was important. Of course, that is/ was a Germanic language. Things started to changed with the influx of Norse speakers (Vikings!). They could kind of understand each other, but in those areas where Norse was a strong influence, things had to change a bit. And then there came the Norman Conquest. They used to be Vikings, but had adopted Old French, which was mostly a romance language. And modern English is now littered with French/ Latin words, or derivatives thereof, as the Normans, and their descendants, dominated the elite for centuries. For anyone reading this, though, have a look at Winston Churchill's famous 'We shall fight on the beaches' speech. Find the one word in that speech that is not of purely Anglo-Saxon origin. Was that deliberate? EDIT: Can anyone think of a suitable Anglo-Saxon derived word that he could have used?

@DrPonner 2 ай бұрын

It seems to be a general trend in the majority of the Indo-European languages to simplify the case morphology and rely more on syntactic (word order) strategies. You see the reduction (and often complete elimination of) of cases in the Germanic, Romance and Indo-Iranian languages. Slavic languages seem to have kept them more conservatively. As have Greek and Armenian. Though few if any have kept ALL the 8 cases of the Indo-European language ancestor.

@queenmaria4735 2 ай бұрын

Honesty or information is noun how?

@corlunae 2 ай бұрын

Just out of curiosity: what category of words would you put them in instead?

@AttilatheNun-xv6kc 2 ай бұрын

They are *abstract nouns* (intangible).

@carultch 2 ай бұрын

People, places, things, or concepts, are nouns. In other words, it is the stuff that can either act, or be acted upon, that makes up a sentence. Could be something physical, or could be something that is just an idea.

@Claudius_Ptolemy Ай бұрын

Because they can be the subject of a sentence, like: "Honesty is great" or "the Information is here." Also, since you can put adjectives to them like "brutal honesty" or "Important information" they are nouns.