http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:45:17 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/lib/images/favicon.ico http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/ http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/start Welcome to Learn Latin! Our mission is to help anyone interested in Latin to learn the language well enough to read classics like Caesar and Cicero, follow along in the Latin Mass, or any other use of Latin. Our Free Weekly Lessons are the core of the site, and we will continue adding to them until they form a complete Latin course. We also plan to do video lessons that work together with the printed ones. Follow LearnLatin4Free on Twitter to get tips and personal answers to your questions, … aaron Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:16:05 -0600 http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/latin/lesson_12 The Pluperfect Tense The pluperfect tense is used to refer to actions that had already happened before some other action. It is usually translated in English with the word had, as in: I had called; we had sailed. To form the pluperfect, we add the tense-sign -era- to the perfect stem, then add the personal endings that we're familiar with (-o/-m, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt) to that. (Note that we don't use the special perfect tense endings we learned in the last lesson; those are only for the … aaron latin Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:09:26 -0600 http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/latin/lesson_8 Forms All the first- and second-declension adjectives we learned earlier ended in -us, -a, -um in the nominative singular. There are also some adjectives which end in -er in the masculine nominative singular. Recall that with nouns ending in -er, some retain the 'e' when declined through the other cases and some lose it: aaron latin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:20:15 -0600 http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/latin/lesson_20 We will see two types of numerals in this lesson. The cardinal numbers (one, two three) are used for counting. The ordinal numerals (first, second, third) are used for putting things in order. Both kinds are adjectives, with one exception we'll meet later. aaron latin Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:36 -0600 http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/latin/lesson_31 Forms The subjunctive mood has no future or future perfect tense, only the other four tenses. We will learn the present and imperfect in this lesson and the perfect and pluperfect in the next lesson. Present Tense In the first conjugation, we form the subjunctive by replacing the distinctive -a- of the stem with -ē-, and adding the usual personal endings: aaron latin Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:05:54 -0600 http://www.butteredham.com/learn-latin/latin_lessons * Lesson 1: The First Declension; Nominative Case * Lesson 2: The First Conjugation; Verb Agreement; Direct Objects * Lesson 3: Sum (I am); Ablative of Place; Questions * Lesson 4: The Second Declension, Masculine; The Genitive Case * Lesson 5: The Second Declension, Neuter; The Accusative of Motion Toward; The Ablative of Motion Away * Lesson 6: Adjectives * Lesson 7: Imperfect and Future Tenses * Lesson 8: The Dative Case; Adjectives Ending in -er * Lesson 9: Imperfect and Fut… aaron Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:53:29 -0600