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Nouns and Cases; First Declension; Agreement of Adjectives; Syntax To remember the paradigm for a first declension noun, sing to the tune of Old MacDonald Had A Farm: A-AE-AE-AM-AA! And then decline the plural noun: AE-ARUM-IS-AS-IS! With the nominative first And the genative next Dative and accusative Ablative and vocative Decline a first declension noun: A-AE-AE-AM-AA! Of course, with only five syllables in the 'E-I-E-I-O' part of the song, there's no room to explicitly state the vocative. But the vocative is the same as the nominative, so that's shouldn't give you too much trouble. What do the cases mean? To the tune of Video Killed the Radio Star: Nouns come in cases: Oh-uh-oh! Recall their places: Nominative is the sentence subject Genative is possesive in fact Dative nouns are indirect Accusative is the object Ablative the verb affects And vocative you interject Please note that these songs are not intended to give you all the information. Just to remind you of it. Slacker. Nouns and adjectives have to 'agree' in Latin - must be declined the same way. There are three things you have to remember to check for. To the tune of Are You Sleeping: (Nouns and adjectives) Must agree (Must agree) Case, number, and gender (Case, number, and gender) In these three (In these three) |