Latin/Basics Lesson 1

Salvēte omnēs! (Hello everyone!)

If you are one of the many interested in learning the ancient and beautiful Latin language, here is a starter lesson for you.

Vocabulary

English	Latin	Audio (Classical)	Notes
girl	puella
woman	fēmina
boy	puer
man	vir		Either is acceptable; homō has a more universal usage (human) as opposed to vir (biologically male human)
man	homō

Phrases

Latin	English	Audio (Classical)	Notes
			All phrases
ūnus puer	one boy
ūna fēmina	one woman		introducing the adjective unus,a,um to mean one, modifying a masculine or feminine noun
illa puella	that girl, THE girl		Latin doesn't have article adjectives but may use demonstrative adjectives/pronouns for a similar purpose or to add emphasis -- do not worry too much about it until later, though
ille homō	that man, the man
ille vir	that man

Sentences

Latin	English	Audio (Classical)	Notes
			All sentences
Sum fēmina	I am a woman I am the woman.
Ego fēmina sum.	I am a woman I am the woman.		Introducing subject pronoun Ego = I and the flexible word order of Latin sentences.
Vir sum	I am a man I am the man.
Ego sum puer Sum puer Puer sum.	I am a boy.
Puella sum.	I am a girl.
Ille homō sum.	I am that human being I am that man.
Sum illa fēmina	I am that woman.
Sum ūna puella Ūna puella sum Ego ūna puella sum Ego sum ūna puella Ego sum puella ūna.	I am one girl.

Practice

Practice and learn the words and phrases in this lesson
Step one	First learn the words using this lesson: Basics Lesson one
Step two	Next try learning and writing the sentences using this: Sentences lesson one
Note that the Memrise stage covers the content for all the lessons in this section

As you can see if you made it this far, Latin has an incredibly flexible word order within sentences. It makes up for this flexibility with a very rigid and absolute requirement for the correct grammatical endings for nouns and verbs, as becomes very obvious within the first few days of study. This is precisely why it makes it easy to learn with online tools. Making Grammar-learning mistakes into a game automatically makes it fun and is a fantastic resource to add to any learning situation. You can try these sentences on Memrise.

Thanks for reading and... Habeātis bonam fortūnam!

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