The First Declension

This may be the first thing you ever learned with Latin, and the first is always the best. This video covers the declension of first declension nouns, how they are translated, and other peculiar features of the a declension.

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I don't do the vocative or locative in my declension videos because they are, in truth, minor cases for only a few nouns (names/titles for the vocative, cities/towns/small islands for the locative). Secondly, the vocative is the same as the nominative for all nouns except 2nd declension masculine singulars that don't end in -er/-ir. That's a pretty narrow subset. And thirdly (and most importantly), the vocative would take up space, which would mean my font would have to be smaller.

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The -nt ending on dormiunt is used for 3rd person plural subjects (e.g., "they"). If it were singular, it would be dormit, and the -t ending shows us that it's 3rd person singular ("he/she/it").

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[@novvain495]

I believe the nom/acc/gen/dat/abl order is better though ,because it follows the case hiearchy.

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Again, so helpful! I am really beginning to understand declensions with this video.

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[@emilyannesnipes4561]

So, my Latin grammar lists crambe as an example of a first declension noun, but it doesn't have the -ae ending for the genitive or the -am ending for the accusative. What makes it a first declension noun?

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Awesome video I finally got the difference or how to pick if it's ablative or accusative thanks :)

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[@mercharris5266]

Wow, Latin is way more complex than I thought. I heard it was easy. I’ve been learning German for years, so the case system is somewhat familiar. Not sure I want to commit time to learning another language that utilizes a case system. I’ll just study it a little longer until I’m sure, just in case. Thanks for the video.

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+latintutorial Could you suggest elementary texts to read and study so that one may apply these rules?

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Hi Mr. Latin Tutor. I didn't know if you had any worksheets I could practice on. This video was great, and I liked it. I have finals next week, I didn't know if you had worksheets. Thanks again

[@latintutorial]

Uh That Gut No worksheets, but there are plenty of places to practice. For one, check out magistrula.com, a great site with wonderful practice exercises.

[@Florida1213]

Latin teacher here. Excellent presentation, sir. My only quibble would be that the lexical form of any noun will contain three elements: nominative singular, genitive singular, and indication of gender. I love the classy font you use with macrons. What is it called?

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Wow. Awesome video. :D Helped me a ton. So how exactly are you supposed to pronounce the words?

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How can one tell the difference between "The mistresses (p) gave the girl's (g) toga to the boy" from "The girls (p) gave the mistresses (g) toga to the boy"? When the plural case ends with ae and the genative case also ends with ae. Your videos are amazing, by the way.

[@latintutorial]

Adan Vega Thanks, and technically you can't grammatically, and have to rely on word placement (and even though Latin has a flexible word order, it does still rely on word order). Typically, the subject will begin the sentence: dominae puero togam puellae dant vs. puellae puero togam dominae dant. (Make this "the mistresses gave the girl's toga to the slave-girl" and you get an even nastier sentence: dominae ancillae togam puellae dant). So the standard word order conventions are subject-indirect object-direct object-verb, and genitives tend to follow the noun they are qualifying. It's somewhat similar to these English sentences where word placement means everything: the mistress gives the boy a tutor vs. the mistress gives the tutor a boy.

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So, "light from the star" will be "lucis stelli" and "light OF the star" will be "lucis stellae".Please rectify me if have made any error.

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Your videos are great but I have a question: How do I actually learn to speak and verbally communicate with Latin? These videos are great but seem to revolve more on reading and writing the language. Does it make sense? Thank you.

[@latintutorial]

Kevin Mcormick: Not always, but usually. There are some neuter nouns that end in -a in the plural.

[@leekillingsworth3744]

Thank you so much for this, this has helped a lot! I still have a question, how would you indicate for example, 'The Girls' Mother sleeps.' To say a mother that has many girls. As Nom plural is ae, and gen is ae? 'Mater puellaeae dormit.'?(lol) or would you specifically have to do something like, ' Mater multae puellae dormit.'?

[@latintutorial]

You’d want to use the plural form: puellārum.

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@sambonfante1 I've got some videos on Latin pronunciation that you can check out. It doesn't address words as much as consonants and vowels, but still handy.

[@pixeldot434]

Is there a general rule as to which words belong to the 1st, 2nd, etc. declension?

[@pixeldot434]

The word -boy- for instance. Does it only belong to the 2nd declension? Contains suffixes of the 2nd declension only?

[@beak355]

Thanks so much.-Uh That Gut

[@ellaschumann8868]

Does anyone know where I could find a chart for all five declensions? I need to memorize them...

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+Ella Schumann There's this cool website called Google.

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Google? People still use that instead of DDG?

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Please, is "Scientia diabolicam" a correct Latin to "Diabolical Science" ?

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Humberto Maggi I think that it's "Scientia Diabolica", because it's in the nominative.

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[@bigd3996]

Why are the first declension ablative/dative plurals sometimes -abus?

[@TimeTravelingAltair1337]

To differentiate from the masculine second declension ablative / dative plurals

[@legaleagle46]

And it only applies to "dea" and "filia." All other First Declension nouns take -is in the Dative and Ablative plural.

[@Imhornydadcomeinside]

Question: Does "filia" become "Filia, filiae, filiae..."?

[@legaleagle46]

Yes.

[@latintutorial]

Sure.

[@latintutorial]

Sorry, it's the American way! I address this a bit in the "Case Review" video. The American order, by the way, is attested to by the ancient Romans. So this reverse alphabetical order (which isn't reverse alphabetical if you include the vocative at the bottom, as most American texts do) is such for a reason.

[@luca849]

i have a latin test tomorrow with all 5 declensions and both passive and active forms of verbs time to study **laughs nervously**

[@Polyglotz]

What does it mean to decline a noun?

[@latintutorial]

***** When you "decline" a noun, you give all of the noun's forms for all of the different cases (nominative, genitive, etc.) and numbers (singular, plural). Think of this as a list that you go down - hence the term "decline".

[@Fummy007]

Weird. In Britain we learn the cases in the order Nom,Voc,Acc,Gen,Dat,Abl. Makes memorising by wrote easier I think since it form a nicer "song" when dat and abl are together, since they are often the same.

[@latintutorial]

I can't disagree with this order. The standard American order does have its benefits, like ... ... putting the nominative and genitive next to each other?

[@Chifum_Ibekwe]

what grade are you guys in. im in 8th learning this

[@violinguy95]

If you wanted couldn't you put it as dormiunt puellae?

[@legaleagle46]

You could. Word order is much more flexible in Latin than it is in many other languages (including English). However, the preferred word order always puts the conjugated verb at the end. Putting "puellae" at the end of the sentence puts emphasis on the noun rather than the verb (that is,it emphasizes that it is the GIRLS who are sleeping, not the BOYS, for example).

[@stavenbyrne8010]

So this shows why we have words like "constellation". If I break it down: con'stella'tion

[@polarkorea5143]

How do we know dormiunt is supposed to be plural?

[@legaleagle46]

Because that's the way the verb is conjugated in the present tense: dormio, dormis, dormit, dormimus, dormitis, dormiunt.

[@nominami384]

In basics of Declension you say that there are 3 Declension now they are 5?Please explain it's a huge strugle....

[@latintutorial]

Three big ones that are important to know in the beginning stages of learning Latin, but five in total. The fourth and fifth are relatively uncommon.

[@nominami384]

Thank you a lot.Wish you health and happiness.

[@landroverbro]

I once heard Latin a very logical, almost mathematical language and now I see why.

[@jenniferashburn911]

another easy way to remember them in order is never gaze down acid abysses nom, gen, dat, acc, abl

[@tinostipanov4743]

What about the vocative?

[@latintutorial]

Same as the nominative. The vocative isn't really worth putting into the charts of most declensions (all except the second) since it's the same as the nominative. Check out more on the vocative here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6WxkGlolNV-j9U

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Why is voccative missing?

[@latintutorial]

Vocative is the same as the nominative for most nouns, so I discuss it in its own video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6WxkGlolNV-j9U

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@@latintutorial Thank you for taking time to reply! I really appreciate these videos, they helped a lot.

[@hoorgu]

Isn't it stēlla not stella though?

[@latintutorial]

I follow the convention of the Oxford Latin Dictionary and don't mark long vowels within long syllables.

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@@latintutorial okay, I get it. Although it's pretty confusing to me.

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I know this video is old and I don't mean to play smart or something, this video is good but the person who made the video doesn't spell ''ae'' right. I guess it's a normal mistake for people who don't speak other romance languages or for native english speakers in general. Also, there is the Vocative case that isn't shown in this video and the endings are ''a''-singular, ''ae''-plural.

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4 months ago. did you?

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You are missing vocative ?

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[@mGradDarko]

Dude there should be 6 padezi, not 5 ?

[@AccordingToWillow]

mGradDarko seven, but he doesn't talk about vocative and locative in most videos because they're not used nearly as often as the big five

[@latintutorial]

AccordingToWillow That's right and thanks! As well, the vocative is identical to the nominative in most forms. I do have a video on the vocative case, if you're interested in that, but it really is a topic that can be addressed separately.

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[@michaeltraub3614]

Where is the vocative?

[@latintutorial]

In the vocative video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6WxkGlolNV-j9U Since the vocative is only interesting for the second declension singular (otherwise it's the same as the nominative), it's not essential when talking about declension forms, in my opinion.

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I'm surprised Latin grammar is somewhat similar to Russian grammar

[@roxanaale3807]

i think you pronounce ”ae” wrong

[@latintutorial]

It's gibberish.

[@lovedogsawsome]

It's wrong he forgot the vocative case

[@mordirit8727]

Not all that important, as long as he remembers to say something about it on the 2nd declension's lesson.

[@latintutorial]

Ella Schumann, check out my video on Latin's Case System: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJfLgZKcoJeqhLM.

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I like these videos, but I still don't like Latin :(

[@latintutorial]

That's okay.

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