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| Name of Case. | |||||
| 1st Case. | Lȳdia | Lydia | Nominative. | ||
| 2nd Case. | Lȳdia | o | Lydia | Vocative. | |
| 3rd Case. | Lȳdiam | Lydia | Accusative. | ||
| 4th Case. | Lȳdiae | Lydia's, of Lydia | Genitive. | ||
| 5th Case. | Lȳdiae | to | Lydia | Dative. | |
| 6th Case. | cum | Lȳdiā | with | Lydia | Ablative. |
| SINGULAR. | PLURAL. | |
| 1 | villa bella | villae bellae |
| 2 | villa bella | villae bellae |
| 3 | villam bellam | villās bellās |
| 4 | villārum bellārum | villae bellae |
| 5 | villīs bellīs (with a verb of ‘giving’) | villae bellae (with a verb of ‘giving’) |
| 6 | in villā bellā | in villīs bellīs |
The Preposition which is used with the Ablative Case must be varied to suit the sense of the noun which is being declined: e.g. ‘cum Lȳdiā,’ but ‘in villā’ or ‘ex villā’ or ‘ā villā’
| Present Tense of ‘sum’ and 1st Conjugation. | ||
| SINGULAR. | PLURAL. | |
| 1st Person | sum, I am | sumus, we are |
| 2nd Person | es, thou art (you are) | estis, you are |
| 3rd Person | est, he (she, it) is | sunt, they are |
| 1st Person | spectō, I see | spectāmus, we see |
| 2nd Person | spectās, thou seest (you see) | spectātis, you see |
| 3rd Person | spectat, he (she, it) sees | spectant, they see |
The verb ‘dō,’ I give, has a short a in the 1st and 2nd Person plural: dămus, dătis.
