Seeing how the cases are working together in sentences is crucial otherwise the words look random on a page.
When you look at them
all – deliberately – put in bold, it seems intimidating, but four out of the
five plural case endings for the first declension are in those texts.
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Fēriae nunc
sunt. Inter fēriās in villā maritimā habitō. Ō beātās fēriās!
In arēnā ōrae maritimae sunt ancorae et catēnae.
Nam incolae ōrae maritimae sunt nautae. Magna est
audācia nautārum: procellās nōn formīdant. Nautās amō,
ut nautae mē amant. Cum nautīs interdum in scaphīs nāvigō.
Ex fenestrīs vīllae undās spectās. Undās caeruleās
amō. Quam magnae sunt, quam perlūcidae! Post cēnam lūnam et stēllās ex
fenestrā meā spectō. Prope vīllam est silva, ubi cum amitā meā saepe
ambulō.
Quantopere
nōs silva dēlectat! Ō cōpiam plantārum et herbārum!
Ō cōpiam bācārum! Nōn sōlum nautae sed etiam agricolae circum
habitant. Casae agricolārum parvae sunt. Nautae casās albās
habitant. Amita mea casās agricolārum et nautārum saepe
vīsitat.
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Image #1: Many words
in bold – but only four colours.
Image #2: Take a
second look. What you need to know at this stage: four endings. For me, I took
one example of each so that each ending can
be seen in context.
[1] Nominative plural:
Agricolae circum habitant │ Farmers live all around.
[2] Accusative plural:
Procellās nōn formīdant │ They do not
fear the storms.
Inter fēriās │ during the holidays
[3] Genitive plural:
Magna est audācia ¦
nautārum │ Great is the bravery ¦ of the sailors.
[4] Ablative plural:
Ex fenestrīs │ from / out of the windows
And once you become
confident in the endings and how the cases are used, you can see them working
together in the same sentence.
Three in one:
Ex fenestrīs [ablative plural]│vīllae [genitive singular]│undās [accusative plural] spectās.
From the windows │of the house │you look at │the waves.
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