Expertlatin
- How do you make Latin adjectives agree with nouns?
- What are the characteristics of Latin nouns?
- How do adjectives decline in Latin?
- Do adjectives go after nouns in Latin?
How do you make Latin adjectives agree with nouns?
In Latin, adjectives must agree with nouns in number, case, and gender. Thus, a feminine nominative singular noun must be modified by the feminine nominative singular form of the adjective, while a masculine nominative singular noun is modified by a masculine nominative singular adjective.
What are the characteristics of Latin nouns?
All Latin nouns have three characteristics: case, number, and gender. Gender is a grammatical category used to define nouns. There are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. In English the gender of a noun is determined by its sex.
How do adjectives decline in Latin?
Like nouns, adjectives in Latin are declined. The vast majority take either the first and second declension (antiquus -a -um) or the third declension (ferox, ferocis). All such adjectives must agree with the nouns they describe in gender, number, and case.
Do adjectives go after nouns in Latin?
Adjective position
In Latin, an adjective can either precede or follow its noun: for example, "a good man" can be both bonus vir or vir bonus. Some kinds of adjectives are more inclined to follow the noun, others to precede, but "the precise factors conditioning the variation are not immediately obvious".
