Year 3 · Grade 5: Declension Review
Review how noun patterns keep the same case jobs across different declensions.
What to notice
- declensions
- case review
- noun number
Examples
- lupa / lupae — she-wolf / she-wolves. lupae can be the nominative plural form.
- amicus / amici — friend / friends. amicus is singular; amici can be plural.
- bellum / bella — war / wars. Many neuter plurals use -a for nominative and accusative.
- tempus / tempora — time / times. tempus is a third-declension neuter noun; tempora is its plural.
- res / rei — thing / of a thing. res is a fifth-declension noun.
- case names — nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative. The major case names identify how nouns function in a sentence.