14.07.24: level 2; is, ea, id [7]; the “table”: how to handle it – step by step [2]

Image: By making a “jump” the endings of the pronouns most often match with the endings of 1st / 2nd declension nouns. It doesn’t match 100% but it’s close. Where it doesn’t match is marked in red.

Here are examples showing them working in a sentence. As always, I think it’s best to focus on a single example for each one.

Nominative

• Is quī semper abest nihil potest discere. │ He who is always absent can learn nothing.
• Discipulus est is quī discit. │ A pupil is he [i.e. someone / a person (m.)] who learns.
• Tum ea respondit: "Mihi non licet hoc dicere." │ Then she replied “I’m not allowed to say that.”
• Quid est id quod Mārcus claudit? │ What is it that Marcus is closing?

Genitive

• Omnia flōrum genera sub pedibus eius flōrēbant. │ All kinds of flowers were blossoming beneath his feet.

Dative

• Litterās scrīpsit eī. │ He wrote letters to him / her.
• Iūlium vīdī et eī librum dēdī. │ I saw Julius and I gave a book to him.

Accusative

• Līberāte eum, Mārce et Sexte. │ Let him go, Marcus and Sextus.
• Et ab illō diē incēpit eam dīligere. │ And from that day he began to love her.
• Cīvēs igitur mōnstrum īnfēstum in urbem trāxērunt. Iuvenum chorus per viās id dūxērunt. │ The citizens, therefore, dragged the dangerous monster into the city. A chorus of youths led it through the streets.

Ablative

• Fuitque Dominus cum eō (Vulgate) │ And the Lord was with him
• Exercitum colligās et ad dēbellandum inimīcum suum pergās cum eō! │ You should gather the army together and continue with it to defeat his enemy.
• …quod aliud auxilium ab eā habēre nōn posset… │ … because he couldn’t have any other help from her.

Two cases in the same sentence:

• Exultāte in eā [ablative] omnēs quī dīligitis eam [accusative] gaudēte cum eā [ablative] gaudiō ūniversī quī lūgētis super eam [accusative]. (Vulgate)│ Rejoice in her, all (you) who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all (you) who mourn over her.