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Latin grammar study
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ablative absolute | Translates to "As X, Y happened" w/variations. Construction: Ablative noun with agreeing participle. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of a word. Meaning varies w/word(s). |
| Comparative adverb | Adverb in the comparative form, ends -ius |
| Gerund | Type: any verb ending in "-ing", walking, speaking, etc. Construction: Normal verb, insert "-nd-" between root and ending |
| Inverted verb form | Compound verb where the other part comes first, "sublata est" inverted would be "est sublata," means nothing special-artistic decision |
| Indirect command | Command w/out volative. Revealed by translation. |
| Relative clause | Began by relative pronoun(q-word) which is always next to what they affect, usually broken off by something. Translates to "X, which Y,..." |
| Reflexive verb | Modifies the user, "they X themselves", usually uses "se" |
| Passive periphrastic | Translates to "must be," gerundive with sum |
| Correlative | Two conjunctions in a sentence, translates to something like "both X and Y" or by conjunction |
| Ablative of comparison | Ablative case, translate for use, translates as comparison(duh) |
| Superlative adjective | "Most" adjective form, ends w/"-tissimi" |
| Gapped word | Used when there's no nominative in a sentence, comes from older sentence by context |
| Comparative adjective | "More" adjective form, ends w/"-as" |
| Result clause | Clause constructed as "Since X, THEN Y" where caps is actual clause |
| Conditional clause | Clause constructed as "If X, then Y" |
| Present Active Infinitive | Basic infinitive form, "re" verb, translates "to X" |
| Enclitic conjunction | Special construct where conjunction is appended to the end of a word |
| Ablative of agent | Ablative case, uses "a" for conjunction, translates as "by X" |
| Ablative of accompaniment | Ablative case, uses "cum" for conjunction, translates to "with X" |
| Relative clause of characteristic | Relative clause that describes someone, built like relative clause |
| Appositive | Noun that defines another noun |
| Present passive infinitive | Translates as "to be X", add -ri to end |
| Accusative object of preposition | Accusative noun with preposition, modifies another noun |
| Present active participle | Conjugated as 3rd-declension adjective, "Xing Y" |
| Ablative of manner | Ablative form, has some adjective/adverb to go with it, "with X" |
| Future active participle | Recognizable by "futuristic "-urus" ending", "X who is going to Y" |
| Ablative of place | Ablative form, has preposition with ablative noun describing place |
| Cum clause | "With [...]", always has a "cum" in it |
| Perfect passive participle | Remove "-um" from word, add "-us", "Yed X" |
| Ablative of means | Ablative form, what they did it with, one-word(in ablative, duh), translate to see |
| Ablative of time | Ablative form, noun in ablative, translate to see |
| Ablative of cause | Ablative form, uses qu-word, translates as why, translate to see |
| Positive adverb | "more" as adverb, "-er" |
| Future active infinitive | Future ur, requires esse, "will be doing" |
| Accusative object of preposition | Accusative case, look for preposition word to find |
| Superlative adjective | Most adjective, "issimo" ending |
| Partitive genitive | Part of a group, translate for location |
| Ablative of separation | Ablative form, basic ablative |
| Ablative of accompaniment | Ablative form, who they're with, always uses "cum" |
| Syncopated verb form | When a verb gets the V removed |
| Gerundive | Translates: "deserves to be X", d(vowel)m (dam, dum) |
| Diminutive | "-ulo", makes something "smaller" |
| Imperative | Translates as "do X", singular is Xe, plural is X(vowel)re |
| Vocative | Case, describes the speaker, same as nominative-see context for confirmation |
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