Nouns and their Cases

  • Latin nouns have various endings.  The endings are determined by what DECLENSION (noun family) they belong to. There are five declensions.  
  • The endings signal the role of the noun in a sentence: subject, possessive, indirect object, direct object and object of a preposition. 
  • These roles and their forms are called CASES. There are other roles too, but you don't need to worry about those yet.   
  • The dictionary form of a noun appears with the nominative, the genitive and the gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) of the noun.  E.g. puella, puellae, f.


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