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Salve and welcome to the first of many installments of The Trollaxor Approach to Latin, a quick and easy guide to learning Latin on the Internet. I'll begin very lightly in this lesson with a few simple concepts, but by the end of this article you will be able to translate your first Latin sentence into English, and vice versa!
Before we begin, I've already snuck in two uses of Latin: salve is a Latin expression which was used similarly to our hello back in the time of the Roman Empire, and I'm sure we're all familiar with vice-versa, which idiomatically means "conversely" in both tongues. We'll look at both phrases in future lessons, but for now being introduced to them is more than enough.
In Latin, nouns change their endings to express different kinds of meaning. Here's a simple Latin sentence:
Let's examine this sentence word by word before we translate it.
First, we come to Anna. It is the subject, or nominative, which is expressed by an -a ending.
The next word in the sentence, Sullam, ends in -am. This ending denotes a direct object status, or the accusative case, for the noun. A direct object receives the results of a verb. In English, a direct object is expressed by position relative to the noun as opposed to a special suffix.
The last word in our sentence is a verb, amat, which means loves in English. We'll start examining verbs in later lessons.
Keeping in mind that Anna is the subject, that amat means loves, and that Sullam will receive the action of the verb, we get
Let's try another:
Given that serva means slave,familiam means family, and cedet means kills, can you use the endings on the two nouns in this sentence to correctly translate it into English?
Now that we've examined and translated our first Latin sentences, let's review what we've learned in today's lesson:
In our next lesson we'll look deeper into the nominative and accusative cases, meet the vocative case, and learn some more Latin vocabulary.
Thank you.
In Soviet Russia, a 5-bit teletype connects YOU to the Internet!
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Does the ascii goatse guy come out okay on it?