Adjectives
Adjectives are descriptive words. They give more information about a noun or pronoun's appearance, number, qualities, etc., for example: the red house, seven men, or true events. An adjective is often said to "modify" the noun it describes.
Adjectives must agree with the nouns/pronouns they modify in gender, number, and case. Therefore, adjectives decline just like nouns. However, unlike nouns, adjective gender is tied to a particular declension.
Adjectives are descriptive words. They give more information about a noun or pronoun's appearance, number, qualities, etc., for example: the red house, seven men, or true events. An adjective is often said to "modify" the noun it describes.
Adjectives must agree with the nouns/pronouns they modify in gender, number, and case. Therefore, adjectives decline just like nouns. However, unlike nouns, adjective gender is tied to a particular declension.
1. Introduction to the Latin Adjective
The main concern of this video is noun-adjective agreement of Gender, Number, & Case.
The main concern of this video is noun-adjective agreement of Gender, Number, & Case.
- 3:55 - 1st/2nd declension Adjectives (2-1-2)
- 5:04 - 3rd declension Adjectives
- 5:30 - Agreement =/= identical endings
- 7:27 - word order
2. First and Second Declension Adjectives (a.k.a. 2-1-2 Adjectives)
- cf. LNM, Book I, Ch. 4, Language Fact III (pp. 64-65)
- 0:45 - basic principle of noun-adjective agreement (case, number, gender)
- 2:58 - correspondence of Gender and Declension
- 5:00 - adjectives that modify nouns of other declensions
- 6:16 - 1st and 2nd declension adjectives ending in -er, -a, -um (cf. LNM, Book I, Ch. 5, Language Fact IV, pp. 77-78)
3. Third Declension Adjectives
- cf. LNM, Book I, Ch. 10, Language Fact II (pp. 169-171)
- 2:00 - of 3 terminations
- 3:27 - of 2 terminations
- 4:24 - of 1 termination
- 5:51 - variation of ablative singular endings with Participles (Latin II & Latin III only)
- 6:42 - review