An introduction to the Latin tongue

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Seite 21 - DECLENSION OF VERBS REGULAR. VERBS have four conjugations, both in the active and passive voice. The first conjugation of Verbs active hath a long, before re and ris: as, amare, amaris. The second hath e long, before re and ris: as, monere, moneris.
Seite 57 - L. A gentleman of fortune will be often complaining of taxes ; that his estate is inconsiderable ; that he can never make so much of it as the world is ready to imagine. A mere citizen, on the other hand, is always aiming to...
Seite 56 - INTERJECTION is a part of speech which betokens a sudden motion of the mind, be it grief, or joy, or other passion. THE THREE CONCORDS EXPLAINED. THERE are three Concords, or Agreements, in Latin : 1. Between the nominative case and the verb. 2. Between the substantive and the adjective. 3. Between the antecedent and the relative. THE FIRST CONCORD. A VERB agrees with its nominative case in number and person. In order to find out the nominative case, ask the question who, or what? with the verb;...
Seite 54 - OF AN ADVERB. AN ADVERB is a part of speech joined to verbs, adjectives, and nouns, to increase or diminish their signification ; as, He speaks well; they write badly.
Seite 21 - VERBS ACTIVE in O are declined after these examples. 1. Am-o, am-as, am-avi, am-are; aman-di, aman-do, aman-dum; amat-um, amat-u; am-ans, amatu-rus: to love. !2.
Seite 15 - I conquer; and these by changing o into or, become verbs passive, as, vincor I am conquered : some are named neuters and intransitives, as, gaudeo I am glad; and these are never made passives. Some verbs ending in or are called deponents, and have an active signification, as, loquur I speak; and some few are neuters, as, glorior I boast.
Seite 37 - Am-ati essent v. fuissent, they would have been loved. INFINITIVE MOOD. PRESENT and PRETERIMPERFECT TENSE. Am-ari, to be loved. PRETERPERFECT and PRETERPLUPERFECT TENSE. Am-atum esse vel fuisse, to have been loved. FUTURE TENSE. Am-atum iri, to be about to be loved.
Seite 53 - A PARTICIPLE is a part of speech derived from a verb, and taketh part of a noun, as, number, gender, case, and declension ; and part of a verb,, as tense and signification. There are four kinds of PARTICIPLES : 1.
Seite 4 - CASES OF NOUNS. Nouns have six cases in each number : the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, the vocative, and the ablative. The nominative case comes before the verb, and answers to the question, who?
Seite 24 - IN VERBS, several tenses are formed of the preterperfect tense of the Indicative mood; as of amav-i are formed— 1. The preterpluperfect of the same mood, amav-eram. 2. The preterperfect of the potential mood, amav-erim. 3. The preterpluperfect of the same mood, amav-issem. 4. The future tense of the same mood, amav-ero.

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