Thursday, August 25, 2011

Open thread for August 30 homework

If you have comments or questions about summarizing Ch. 1 in your own words or preparing sentences 13-20 in Wheelock, share them in the comments!

4 comments:

  1. What are we supposed to summarize from chapter 1?

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  2. Does the translation for words like amavi and cogitavi (which end in -vi) indicate a future tense of the word? Like will love and will think?

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  3. Summarize the new grammar: what is a verb, what are the five characteristics of a verb, how do you form the infinitive, imperative and present indicative forms.

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  4. -vi indicates the past tense, I loved/have loved and I thought/have thought. The future tense is formed with the tag -bi- (in the first and second conjugations). In the third and fourth conjugations it is formed by replacing the vowel at the end of the stem with a long e.

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