Transcript PowerPoint review of The Genitive Case

Chapter 11 Grammar
The Genitive Case
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Past noun cases (from the past)
The Genitive Case
Translate some Genitive Phrases
“Genitive or Nominative?”
Practice the noun chart
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get questions and answers to come up.
Noun Case Review
• What are the noun cases we’ve learned so far?
(The three from before ch. 11)
•Nominative
•Accusative
•Ablative
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Noun case review
• What is each case used for?
Nominative
Subjects (& predicate nom.)
Accusative
•Direct objects
•Objects of ad, per, prope, in (into)
Ablative
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•Objects of sub, cum, ex, in (in/on)
The Genitive Case
• A noun with a Genitive ending:
– usually attaches itself to another noun
– usually afterwards
• It acts like an adjective, modifying the noun
• The Genitive word should be translated with “of”
• Example: villa puellae = the house of the girl
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Using an apostrophe
• You can also use an apostrophe to translate the genitive
case, but BE SURE TO USE IT CORRECTLY!!
villa puellae = the house of the girl
=the girl’s house
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The “Genitive Formula”
• Here’s a helpful formula:
the _______ [of the _____]
This is a
noun, doing
whatever.
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Here’s the noun in
the genitive case.
Other uses of Genitive
• Sometimes a noun in the Genitive can also
be used to modify an adjective:
The threshing floor is full of slaves.
Area est plena servorum.
Adj.
Genitive
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Try translating each phrase:
(out loud, before you click in the answers)
• cibus senatoris
• the food of the senator
• baculum domini
• the stick of the master
• cubiculum Marci
• the room of Marcus
• aqua piscinae
• the water of the fishpond
• pater puerorum
• the father of the boys
• viae Italiae
• the roads of Italy
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Nom. Plural or Genitive Sing.?
• Some Genitive singular endings look just
like a nominative plural:
puellae
“the girls” (subject)
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of the girl
(see next slide…)
Nom. Plural or Genitive Sing.?
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• Use the context (the rest of the words in the
sentence) to help
• Only one answer should make sense
Clamores pueri audit.
•The verb is singular, so pueri cannot be the subject.
•“He hears the shouts of the boy.”
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Nom. Plural or Genitive Sing.?
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• Sometimes you use common sense:
Pueri vocem Marci audiunt.
•It must be “The boys hear the voice of Marcus.”
•“Marci” is Genitive, because we’re not going to be
reading about a room full of Marcuses.
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