The Beginner's Latin Exercises. Personal Pronouns, Verb To Be.
TODO
- Exercise A shows what has to be learnt and written in preparation for the next exercises (and future lessons).
- Exercise B contains viva voce Exercises.
- Exercise C (from Latin) and Exercise D (from English) contain the sentences to be translated, either orally or in writing.
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REQUIREMENTS
Vocabulary 24. Personal Pronouns. Verb To Be.
- heri, adv., yesterday.
- hodie, adv., today.
- cras, adv., tomorrow.
- pauper, -eris, adj., poor.
- laetus, -a, -um, adj., glad, joyous.
- fortuna, -ae, n., fortune (both positive and negative fortune).
EXERCISES
Exercise A: things to learn before attempting the following exercises:
- Vocabulary 24.
- Present-Stem Tenses of the Indicative of the Verb Sum.
- Personal Pronouns
- Ordinal Numbers as far as decimus.
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Exercise B
1. Give orally the English, naming Person and Number
- sum; erat; eritis; estis; tibi.
- eras; erinras; sumus; sunt; nostri.
- erit; est; eratis; vestrum; mihi.
- es; eramus; erunt; nobis; tui.
Exercise C: read and translate from Latin.
- Simplex cibus mihi optimus est.
- Tu tertius discipulus es, et ego septimus.
- Nos sumus pauperes, vos estis divites.
- Nos in horto eramus, vos in agro eratis.
- Mater mea mihi carissima semper erit.
- Fidelis amicus mihi eris.
- Carior nobis es quam vita.
- Sapientia carior tibi est quam aurum.
- Miserrimi eramus heri, et hodie sumus laetissimi.
- Numa secundus Romae rex erat, Tarquinius septimus.
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Exercise D: read and translate from English.
- My brother is the tenth scholar, and I the first.
- We were more diligent than you, yesterday.
- You are very-dear to me.
- You are glad today, but tomorrow you will be sad.
- Fortune is kinder to me than to you.
- A true friend is dearer to us than gold.
- The general's praise will be pleasing to you, soldiers.
- Tullus was the third king of Rome.
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CREDITS
C.Sherwill Dawe, The Beginner's Latin Exercises Book, 1880, Rivington, Waterloo Place, London; read the book on archive.org.
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