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Basics of Latin
LATIN

Latin is divided into three main categories: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives. Subcategories are pronouns and adverbs Masculine, Feminine, and neither. the difference is the endings.
There are also direct objects.This is the one recieving the action. example "puellae ascendit arborem." which means the girls climb a tree, the tree recieves the climbing, so it is the direct object.

feminine masculine neuter
singular a us e
plural ae i es
direct object
singular am um em
plural as os es(again)
infinitive- to (verb)- "re" at end of verb

sum I am (verb)ing)
es you are (verb)ing)
est he/she is (verb)ing)
sumus we are (verb)ing)
estis you all are (verb)ing)
sunt they are (verb)ing)

eram I was (being*) (adj.)*
eras you were (being)(adj.)
erat he/she was (being) (adj.)
eramus we were (being) (adj.)
eratis you all were (being) (adj.)
erant they were (being) (adj.)
*1
being- only if grammatically correct
yes! he was being odd
no! he was being ugly-to make correct, remove BEING.

bam I used to(verb)
bas you used to (verb)
bat he/she used to (verb)
bamus we used to (verb)
batis you all used to (verb)
bant they used to (verb)













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