1. 1 st declension GM and Dentistry 3 rd lesson

2. Reading exercise Try to guess purpose and date of creation of following texts:

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8. Content Grammatical cases Latin declensions How to distinguish between decl. 1 st declension - paradigm Vocabulary

9. Grammatical Cases In the Basic Medical Terminology only four grammatical cases are used albeit Latin posses six of them. Nominative (Nom.), Genitive (Gen.), Accusative (Acc.), Ablative (Abl.).

10. The Purpose of GC Nominative - the basic form of word. Genitive - connects two nouns together. It is used to express attribute. Dominant noun is further specified by another noun (attribute) that has to be in Gen. Accusative - certain prepositions in Latin require use of Acc. Ablative - the rest of prepositions uses Abl.

11. Latin Declensions I. Latin nouns could be divided to five declensions and further to groups according paradigms. To tell apart words belonging to different declensions we must know so called “dictionary form” of word.

12. Dictionary Form of a Noun Example: musculus, -i M.; caput, -itis N.; fractura, - ae F. The df. contains nominative singular form of the word followed by genitive singular ending and a letter (M, F, N) indicating the gender. None of those three pieces of information can be reliably guessed from the rest. You have to memorize it.

13. Latin Declensions II. In the dictionary form, look at the genitive ending: If the ending is -ae the word belongs to the 1 st declension. If the ending is -i the word belongs to the 2 nd declension. If the ending is -is the word belongs to the 3 rd declension. If the ending is -us the word belongs to the 4 th declension. If the ending is -ei the word belongs to the 5 th declension.

14. The Paradigm CaseSingularCasePlural Nom.ven -aNom.ven -ae Gen.ven -aeGen.ven -arum Acc.ven -amAcc.ven -as Abl.ven -aAbl.ven -is

15. How to apply the paradigm? v e n a In the vocabulary you have to distinguish between two parts of a word: stem and suffix (ending): stems a q u av i ad i p h t h e r i a endings

16. In the 1 st declension the stem will stay and the ending changes according the paradigm: v e n ae stems a q u aev i aed i p h t h e r i ae endings By appending -ae we create genitive grammatical case.

17. Vocabulary can be found on the page 50 - 51.