1. Focus on Fluency Nouns, Adjectives, and pronouns
Developing Latin Literacy Skills, Step-by-Step
Nouns, Adjectives, and pronouns

2. Parsing Pronouns Pronouns in Latin have three aspects to be identified
Gender – masculine, feminine, neuter
Number – singular, plural
Case – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative
Use Section 5 in A Student’s Latin Grammar to parse pronouns
quārum
hōs
mihi

3. Parsing Nouns Step 1: Look up the word to find the gender
Memorize the gender of a noun when learning the vocabulary for each unit
Step 2: Look at the second principal part to determine the noun’s declension.
First declension: -ae
Second declension: -ī
Third declension: -is
Fourth declension: -ūs
Fifth declension: -eī

4. Parsing Nouns
Step 3: Go to Section 1 in A Student’s Latin Grammar and find the chart for the matching declension. Match the ending of the word to the chart
If there is more than one match, write down the information for all matches. We will use context later to narrow down the correct form.

5. Parsing Adjectives
Step 1: Look up the word to determine the adjective’s declension.
First and Second Declension: -us, -a, -um OR –er, -ra, -rum
Third Declension: Anything that doesn’t match the form above
Step 2: Go to Section 2 in A Student’s Latin Grammar and find the chart for the matching declension. Match the ending of the word to the chart
If there is more than one match, write down the information for all matches. We will use context later to narrow down the correct form.

6. Adjectives Always Agree With Their Nouns!
Adjectives describe or modify nouns
They always agree with their nouns in three ways:
Gender
Number
Case
The endings of a noun-adjective pair may not match, but they will agree
Pay close attention when parsing! If a noun and adjective have the same identification, they most likely should be read together