Latin with Foster

Lesson 20: Block 2 Nouns

Learning the second group on Latin nouns

Recall how Block 1 Nouns learned in Lesson 4 make up 40% of Latin nouns.
Block 2 Nouns also make up 40% of Latin nouns, meaning that now you almost know the whole language!

Looking up a Block 2 Nouns in your dictionary, recall from Lesson 3 that you will find 3 parts: Subject Form, Grouping, and gramatical Gender.

The second part, the Grouping of all Block 2 nouns end in -is
The third part, like Block 1 nouns, can have a gender of masculine, feminine, neuter, or common gender (can be masculine or feminine).
The first part, the Subject Form which you will find in your dictionary is higly irregular, not following any pattern, making it hard to find in the dictionary.

Block 2 Nouns
Subject Form	Grouping (-is)	Gramatical Gender	Meaning
rex	regis	m	king
homo	hominis	m	human being
veritas	veritatis	f	truth
navis	navis	f	ship
nomen	nominis	n	name; noun
decus	decoris	n	glory, splendor
sacerdos	sacerdotis	c	priest, priestess
homo	hominis	c	people

N.B. There are no patterns to the Subject form.

Go here to see a list of some Block 2 Nouns that you will be learning

Instructions: Now spend no more than 2-3 minutes memorizing the endings listed for using Block 2 nouns as subjects and objects.

Block 2 Nouns
	Masculine and Feminine		Neuter
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Subject:	[Subject Form]	-es	[Subject Form]	-a [-ia 20% of time]
Object:	-em	-es [-is]	[Subject Form]	-a [-ia 20% of time]
Subject:	homo veritas	homines veritates	nomen	nomina
Object:	hominem veritatem	homines veritates	nomen	nomina

Now go on to Homework 18 to practice your Block 2 Nouns.

N.B.

To form the Block 2 Nouns, one must use the 2nd form, dropping the -is and adding the ending given in the chart. Do not use the subject form to make the object or plural forms!
Masculine and Feminine are the same in Block 2.
Neuter nouns still follows the same patterns we learned for Block 1: 1. subject and object are the same, 2. nueter plural ends in -a

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