ABSTRACT
The feminine endings of bonus are identical to those of femina, the masculine to servus, and the neuter to vinum.
Adjectives have equivalent case-endings to the nouns they qualify:
e.g. femina.bQn.a servo vinum dat the good woman gives the wine to the slave
femina bono servo vinum dat the woman gives the wine to the good slave
femina servo bonum vinum dat the woman gives the good wine to the slave
An adjective is said to 'agree with' its noun. The adjective's ending must conform in three ways:
1 Case (nom., acc., etc.)
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2 Number (singular or plural) 3 Gender (masculine, feminine or neuter)
1 The verb to be is followed by the nominative case, not the accusative:
e.g. lulius amicus est Julius is a friend ignavus est Tiberius Tiberius is cowardly in foro sunt duo servi there are two slaves in the forum
2 est and sunt are sometimes used with a dative to show possession:
e.g. est luliQ taurus Julius has a bull (lit. 'a bull is to Julius')
Fill each gap with the correct form of bonus-a-um, and translate:
There is an additional case, the 'vocative', which shows that someone is being addressed:
vincere scis, Hannibal you know how to conquer, Hannibal
The form is the same as the nominative, singular and plural, except for nouns like taurus which end -e in the vocative singular (or, in a few instances, -i):
tu reg ere imperio populos, Romane, memento you, Roman, remember to rule the nations with your power
The vocative is by nature conspicuous, and often preceded by 0 or meus-a-um (my):
Identifying the case For the next few chapters, the nouns and adjectives listed in the vocabularies will give all the possible cases an ending could imply, and the final choice is yours:
e.g. 'nom.lacc.' means the word could be nominative or accusative.
