Year 4C · Grade 8: Infinitives and Possession

Practice indirect statement, possessive adjectives, and participles as verbal adjectives.

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What to notice

• infinitives
• indirect statement
• possession
• participles

Examples

• Putō librum esse bonum. — I think that the book is good.. librum is the accusative subject of the infinitive esse.
• esse — to be. esse is the present infinitive of sum.
• legisse — to have read. The perfect infinitive shows time before the main verb.
• librum meum — my book. First- and second-person possession usually uses possessive adjectives such as meus and tuus.
• Mihi sunt multi libri. — I have many books.. Latin can express possession with the dative.
• datum — given. datum describes the book while keeping the verbal idea "given."