Highlights from Thurs. 9/8

Chapter 3 introduces the second declension. The second declension tends to have o and i in its endings, rather than a. It also has masculine and neuter nouns, rather than feminine as in the first declension. The second declension nouns in Chapter 3 are masculine. (Some of the tags for a neuter noun are different, and those will be introduced in Chapter 4.)

The masculine endings are us, i, o, um, o, (e) / i, orum, is, os, is

A couple of things to remember about these endings:

-Some second declension masculines end in –er in the nominative case. You will know this because of how they are written in the vocabulary:

puer, pueri

ager, agri

-Another thing about these few –er nouns are that sometimes the whole p-u-e-r is used as the stem, and sometimes the –e- drops out (like it does with ager).