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The Latin Adjectives: An Introduction
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The Latin Adjectives: An Introduction

How to Recognise and Understand and Use Adjectives in Latin
Created bySean Gabb
Last updated 9/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Discover what adjectives are and how they work in both English and Latin
  • Learn about the various kinds of adjective - positive, comparative, superlative
  • Learn how to recognise Latin adjectives
  • Learn the main rules of agreement of noun and adjective in Latin

Course content

6 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 42m total length

  • Introductory Words3:35

    This lesson explains how the course is organised and the best way to make use of its various parts

  • What are Adjectives?4:31

    This lesson explains what adjectives are, mostly using examples in English

  • Types of Adjective: Positive, Comparative, Superlative4:02

    This lesson explains the main types of adjective, again mostly using English examples

  • English Adjectives3:42

    Just to ensure full understanding of what they are, this lesson explains the nature of adjectives using English examples

  • Attributive and Predicative Adjectives5:13

    This lesson explains a distinction between adjectives that exists in both English and Latin

  • Basic Agreement6:16

    This lesson gives the basic rules of agreement of Latin Nouns and Latin Adjectives

Requirements

  • A basic understanding that Latin is an inflected language - all else supplied in the course

Description

The purpose of this course is to give an introduction to and an overview of the Latin adjectives. These are often overlooked by beginners in the language, as their endings mostly correspond to those of the first, second and third declensions of nouns. However, there are adjectives that do not have endings that exactly correspond. Also, while adjective function in Latin mostly as they do in English, there are differences that need to be explained.

The most important of these differences is "the principle of agreement," or that adjectives in Latin must correspond with the nouns they describe in

  • case

  • gender

  • number

A further point is that, because they decline, adjectives in Latin have a larger ability to stand as nouns in their own right.

The course is arranged into seventeen lessons. These range between about three and ten minutes each, and these try to cover each topic in a logical manner. How you choose to watch the lessons is for you to decide. Even so, it is probably a good idea to watch them in the order I have given them. This is particularly so if you feel weak in the general area of grammar, as the early lessons explain the nature of adjectives using English examples.

Who this course is for:

  • Latin Beginners

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