10.04.26: Level 1 (review); presentation; Where are you? Where is (s)he?

This short video brings together the ablative case of first and second declension nouns and looks again at the verb esse (to be)

[1]

Ubi │ where?

Ubi sum? │ Where am I?

Ubi es? │ Where are you (singular)?

Ubi est? │ Where is (s)he / it?

Ubi est cattus? │ Where’s the cat?

sum: I am

es: you (singular) are

est: (s)he it

[2] The nouns used belong to two declensions:

[i] First Declension: -a

culīna: kitchen

Gallia: Gaul

schola: school

via: street / road

vīlla: villa; country residence (large and expensive)

[ii] Second declension:

masculine -us

hortus: garden

lūdus: school (can be equated – very broadly – to an elementary school)

neuter: -um

templum: temple

You are also introduced to some parts of a large Roman house or villa:

ātrium: the ‘reception’ room, where the master of the house would meet his ‘clients’ i.e. those looking for some assistance, or influence, or advice … or money

cubiculum: bedroom

trīclīnium: as the name suggests, it was a dining room comprising three sides with cushions on which diners reclined; it’s unlikely this was used on a daily basis, but certainly for entertaining guests

peristȳlium: an internal garden with columns

[3] When the preposition ‘in’ is used with these nouns, the nouns go into the ablative case. There are only two changes to note:

[i] First Declension

culīna > In culīnā sum │ I am in the kitchen

[ii] 2^nd declension: both nouns in -us and -um act in the same way (which is why they are grouped together in the same declension)

hortus > in hortō sum │ I am in the garden

templum > in templō sum │ I am in the temple