Latin

Week 8, November 5

Homework for Friday:

Study for Friday's midterm!

Midterm Exam: Friday, November 7th

• Vocabulary from chapters 30-35

• Passive Voice of the Present System of Verbs (Present Tense, Imperfect Tense, Future Tense). Be prepared to form the Latin verbs in passive voice and to translate. Remember that Latin uses the Active Voice when the subject is doing the action (Servi onera portabant: The servants were carrying the loads) and the Passive Voice when the subject has the action done to is (Onera a servis portabantur: The loads were being carried by the slaves). See pages 23-24.

• Passive Voice endings: 

-r    -mur

-ris  -mini

-tur  -ntur

• Passive Voice Infinitives. The present infinitive (which is the second principal part of the verb) is translated as to ___. For example, portare: to carry, mittere: to send, audire: to hear. The passive voice of the present infinitive is formed in the 1st, 2nd, and 4th conjugations by removing the -e ending from the second principal part and adding an -i ending. Portare (to carry) becomes portari (to be carried), audire (to hear) becomes audiri (to be heard). The passive voice of the present infinitive is formed in the 3rd conjugation by removing the -ere ending and adding an -i ending. Mittere (to send) becomes mitti (to be sent). See page 33.

• Passive Voice of the Perfect System of Verbs (Perfect Tense, Pluperfect Tense, Future Perfect Tense). Be prepared to form the Latin verbs in the passive voice and to translate. The perfect system passive is formed by adding forms of sum, esse, fui, futurus to the fourth principal part of the verb. See page 43.

• Perfect Passive Participles. The fourth Prinicpal part of the Latin verb is used to form the perfect system passive. When it appears on its own, it is known as the perfect passive participle and is translated as "having been ____ ed." A participle is a verbal adjective so the participle will agree in case, number, and gender with the noun it modifies.

Example:

Amo, amare, amavi, amatus

Amatus - having been loved

Mitto, mittere, misi, missus

Missus - having been sent

Example within a sentence:

Depono, deponere, deposui, depositus

Soleae depositae a servis ablatae sunt.

The sandals, having been set down, were carried away by the slaves.

• Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adjectives. Be prepared to form and translate the three degrees of adjectives. See pages 64-67.

• Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adverbs. Be prepared to form and translate the three degrees of adverbs. See pages 74-76.

Week 7, October 31

Homework:

1. Begin reviewing Chapters 30-35 in preparation for next week's midterm.

2. Complete Exercise 35g.

Week 7, October 29

Homework:

Finish translating the story from Chapter 35. A written translation will be due on Friday.

There is no quiz on Friday.

Week 6, October 22nd

Homework:

1. Complete Exercises 34c and 34d.

2. Study positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives. On Friday, I will quiz you by asking you to translate Latin adjectives of various degrees into English.

Week 5, October 10th

Homework:

Translate lines 4-15 of the Chapter 33 story, "At Dinner" (page 49). We began this story in class today, so you should pick up where we left off (" Interea a convivis...).

Week 5, October 8th

Homework:

1. Complete Exercise 33b in Ecce Romani.

2. Study for Friday's quiz. You will be quizzed on the vocabulary on pages 41, 42, and 49.

Week 4, October 3rd

Homework for Wednesday:

Complete Exercise 32d in Ecce Romani.

Week 4, October 1st

Homework for Friday:

1. Study the formation and translation of the perfect passive, pluperfect passive, and future perfect passive tense verbs (found in Chapter 32). I will quiz you on Friday by asking you to translate verbs in these tenses (I will not yet ask you to form them yourself). Remember that these three tenses are known as the perfect system and the perfect system passive is formed from the fourth principal part. Each tense uses the fourth principal part with a form of sum, esse, fui, futurus. The perfect passive uses sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt), the pluperfect passive uses eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant, and the future perfect passive uses ero, eris, erit, erimus, eritis, erunt.

2. Complete Exercise 32b.

Week 3, September 26th

Homeworkf or Wednesday:

1. Complete Exercise 31d

2. Begin memorizing the demonstratives ipse, ipsa, ipsum using the chart on page 36.

Week 3, September 24th

Homework for Friday:

Complete Exercise 31C

Prepare for Friday's quiz. On the quiz I will give you the four principal parts of a verb and ask you to form and translate the present passive infinitive of that verb.

Week 2, September 19th

Homework for Wednesday:

Complete Exercise 30d in Ecce Romani

Week 2, September 17th

Homework for Friday:

1. Our first quiz will take place this Friday. For the quiz, you should study the vocabulary terms from Chapter 30 as well as the passive verb endings (-r, -ris, -tur, -mur, -mini, -ntur).

2. Complete Exercise 30c.