#1 Worksheet - Declining

Latin For Children

Chapter Maxim: In prïncipiö erat Verbum
(In the beginning was the Word—John 1:1)

New Chant: 1st Conjugation Verb

Vocabulary:
----------------singular-----------plural

1st person -----amö------------- amämus
2nd person ----amäs ------------amätis
3rd person ----amat------------ amant

Vocabulary:
---------Latin--------------------------------------------- English
verbs
amö, amäre, amävï, amätum-------------------- I love, to love, I loved, loved
dö, dare, dedï, datum---------------------------- I give, to give, I gave, given
intrö, inträre, inträvï, inträtum------------------ I enter, to enter, I entered, entered
labörö, laböräre, labörävï, labörätum ------------I work, to work, I worked, worked
narrö, närräre, närrävï, närrätum--------------- I tell, to tell, I told, told

nouns
aqua, aquae ------------------------------------water
fäbula, fäbulae ---------------------------------story
porta, portae----------------------------------- gate
silva, silvae------------------------------------ forest
terra, terrae----------------------------------- earth

VERBS = show action
NOUNS = a person, place or thing


CHAPTER 1: GRAMMAR PAGE ---------------------------UNIT 1

VERBS: ACTION WORDS
In this first chapter you will learn five verbs and five nouns. The first five words on
your vocabulary list are verbs. Verbs are words that show action. For example,
in the phrase “I work in the forest,” which word is the action word? Well, “work”
of course! The way we say “I work” in Latin is labörö—so labörö is a verb, a Latin
action word. Sometimes verbs can also show a “state of being” too, but we will teach
you that later.

LATIN: FEWER WORDS THAN ENGLISH, BUT MANY WORD-ENDINGS

We have a lot of words in English, but they rarely have different endings. For
example, the verb “love” stays the same whether we say “I love,” “we love” or
“they love.” Sometimes we do add an ending, like when we say “he loves,” or “we
loved.” In Latin, though, the verb for love (amö) changes its ending very often! We
will learn the various endings that come with Latin verbs (and nouns) so that we
can know what they mean and how to translate them. (To translate a Latin word,
by the way, means to write out [or tell] what a Latin word means in English! The
translation of amö is “I love.”) Now you know that Latin is a language of many
endings but fewer words than English!

Look at the chart above. It shows you one of the most common
words in Latin (the verb “love”) with all of its endings—six endings in all. When we
list a verb with all of its endings, that is called conjugating a verb.

You can also see that a Latin verb like amö actually contains two words in English!
The word amö means “I love” so it contains not only the word “love” but also the
word “I”. The ending of the verb (“o” in this case) tells you that it is “I” who is
doing the loving. Words like “I,” “you,” “he,” “she,” “it,” “we,” and “they” are all
little words called pronouns that tell you who is doing the action of the verb. The
ending of a Latin verb tells you which pronoun to use! We will study these endings
next week, so don’t fret too much about them now. The chart below, however,
shows you how the verb endings change:

-------------------singular -------------------------plural
1st person ------amö: I love------------------amämus: we love
2nd person -----amäs: you love --------------amätis: you all love
3rd person----- amat: he, she or it loves -----amant: they love

CHAPTER 1: GRAMMAR PAGE CONT. ----------------------UNIT 1

A Verb in Four Parts – The Four Principal Parts
Each Latin verb has four different forms (amö, amäre, amävï, amätum). We call each form a principal part. Why do we call each form a principal part? Because each part is an important form that shows us how to make other forms of the verb. It is a principal part because it is an
important part to know. No need to worry about the other forms that come from
these principal parts—you will learn those later in good time. Learning the principal
parts now, however, will be fun and save you a lot of time later!
Here are the names for each of the four principal parts:

amö ------------amäre--------------- amävï------------------ amätum

Present------- Infinitive------------- Perfect------Passive Participle or Supine


Nouns

You will learn five nouns in this chapter too (aqua, fäbula, porta, silva, terra).
Nouns are used to name a person, place or thing (or sometimes an idea). You
can see that nouns, like verbs, also have endings. For example, aqua,
aquae are both forms for the word water—one form ends with “a”
(aqua) and the other form ends with “ae” (aquae). Don’t worry now
about the endings for nouns—you will learn these in Chapters 3 and 4.

Pronouns are words that fill in for nouns. For example, instead of saying
“Titus wins” we could say “He wins.”
“I,” “you,” “he,” “she,” “it,” “we” and “they” are all pronouns.


CHAPTER 1: WORKSHEET

A. TRANSLATION:
1. amö ______________________
2. intrö______________________
3. dö________________________
4. labörö_____________________
5. fäbula _ ___________________
6. In prïncipiö erat Verbum __________________________________
7. aqua_ _____________________
8. porta______________________
9. närrö______________________
10. silva______________________
11. terra_____________________

B. CHANT:
Conjugate the verb amö.
See if you can remember how to fill in the boxes.

C. GRAMMAR:
1. In Latin, both __________ and __________ have endings.
2. Latin is a language of fewer ___________ but many __________.
3. What kind of word names the action or state of being in a sentence?
4. To ____________ a verb is to ___________ all of its ___________.

D. DERIVATIVES:
1. Aesop is famous for his ______________. (fäbula)
2. Reward will follow hard _____________. (labörö)




CHAPTER 1: QUIZ
A. Vocabulary:
---------Latin-------------------------------------English
amö, amäre, amävï, amätum
dö, dare, dedï, datum
intrö, inträre, inträvï, inträtum
labörö, laböräre, labörävï, labörätum
närrö, närräre, närrävï, närrätum
aqua, aquae
fäbula, fäbulae
porta, portae
silva, silvae
terra, terrae

B. CHANT:
Conjugate the verb amö.
See if you can remember .


C. GRAMMAR:
Define the following words.
1. Conjugation: ______________________________________________________
2. Verb: ____________________________________________________________
3. List the four principal parts: _________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________



Nomen: ________________________ datum: ______________________

Declining Worksheet

1. Choose 6 nouns from chapter(s) __________.
2. Find the stem of each noun.
3. Decline the noun.
4. Translate the box marked *.

1. stem:

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2. stem:

CASE----------- SINGULAR ---------PLURAL
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3. stem:

CASE----------- SINGULAR ---------PLURAL
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