Latin

I need help with the three declensions and all the cases.

1st decl. (Sing.)
Nominative: a
Genetive: ae
Dative: ae
Accusative: am
Ablative :a

Ist decl. (Plur.)
Nominative: ae
Genetive: arum
Dative: is
Accusative: as
Ablative: is

2nd decl. (Sing.)
Nominative: us
Genetive: i
Dative: o
Accusative: um
Ablative: o

2nd decl. (Plur.)
Nominative: i
Genetive: orum
Dative: is
Accusative: os
Ablative: is

3rd decl. (Sing.)
Nominative: -(anything)
Genetive: is
Dative: i
Accusative: em
Ablative: e

3rd decl. (Plur.)
Nominative: es
Genetive: um
Dative: ibus
Accusative: es
Dative: ibus

Do you want any others.

I'll add in the endings for verbs and neuter nouns of the second declension.

Verbs: I - o/m, You (sing.) - s, He/she/it - t, We - mus, You all - tis, They - nt.

Neuter nouns, 2nd decl., singular --

N: um
G: i
D: o
Ac: um
Ab: o
V: um

Plural:

N: a
G: orum
D: is
Ac: a
Ab: is
V: a

Then I may as well add 3rd declension neuter to the list:

Sing.

Nominative: - (anything)
Genitive: is
Dative: i
Accusative: - (anything)
Ablaative: e

Plur.

Nominative: a
Genitive: um
Dative: ibus
Accusative: a
Ablative: ibus

So the complete list:
1st Declension like 'Villa'

SING. PLURAL
Nom.Villa Villae
Voc. Villa Villae
Acc. Villam Villas
Gen. Villae Villarum
Dat. Villae Villis
Abl. Villa Villis

2nd Declension like 'Servus'

SING. PLURAL
Nom.Servus Servi
Voc. Serve Servi
Acc. Servum Servos
Gen. Servi Servorum
Dat. Servo Servis
Abl. Servo Servis

2nd Declension like 'Puer'

Nom.Puer Pueri
Voc. Puer Pueri
Acc. Puerum Pueros
Gen. Pueri Puerorum
Dat. Puero Pueris
Abl. Puero Pueris

2nd Declension like 'Bellum' (Neuter)

Nom.Bellum Bella
Voc. Bellum Bella
Acc. Bellum Bella
Gen. Belli Bellorum
Dat. Bello Bellis
Abl. Bello Bellis


3rd Declension like 'Rex' (remember that each noun has a different stem. Rex's is 'Reg', and to this you add the endings beyond the first two)

Nom.Rex Reges
Voc. Rex Reges
Acc. Regem Reges
Gen. Regis Regum
Dat. Regi Regibus
Abl. Rege Regibus

3rd Declension like 'Nomen'

Nom.Nomen Nomina
Voc. Nomen Nomina
Acc. Nomen Nomina
Gen. Nominis Nominum
Dat. Nomini Nominibus
Abl. Nomine Nominibus

NB.
Nom. = Nominative (Subject of the sentence)
Voc. = Vocative (Spoken to)
Acc. = Accusative (Object of the sentence)
Gen. = Genitive ("Of")
Dat. = Dative ("To" or "For")
Abl. = Ablative ("By", "with" or "From")

Hope that helped

Just remember not to forget about the Vocatives. They need love too.

However, not much Latin uses the vocative. The text will tell you about the vocatives. Thusly, voactives are no good here.

I beg to differ, Vocatives are used on many occasions.

I know that they are used in conversation, but not many people, if any, speak the language. If anyone did, then supines wouldn't be rare in text. In plays however, vocative is used and so are the supine and passive periphrastic, but in the help text, it will tell you if the vocative, supine, or passive periphrastic is being used. In other words, it isn't used much in written stories. It tends to just be discussed and left out. I haven't seen any voactives in Cicero's or Caesar's speeched yet. It may just have not been given to us, but my Latin teacher would have yelled at us about the vocative if we had gone over it. All of my other Latin teachers have told us to disregard the vocative since it is rare that we will see it in Latin. In conlusion, vocative is not needed to be memorized/important.

If you want to learn any language thoroughly, especially one as technical as Latin, then you need to understand everything. Missing out a whole case is silly, particularly when it is easy to learn. The only case that should ever not be learnt is the Locative, but that is used A LOT less frequently than the Vocative, which, depending on which course you study, varies greatly in importance.

The Locative is one case I've seen more of than the vocative. I got yelled at in class for leaving out the locative. The vocative, though, never showed up. Have you read, or translated, the play "Aulularia of Plautus"? The locative shows up more ofter than the vocative. This is conversational and I see supines, passive periphrastics, locatives, gerundives, but no vocative. However, locative and vocative are both important in Latin, but most text will tell you if that's being used. This is just knowledge that is to be kept in the back of your head.

aren't the cases and declensions in you're text book? what kind of help do you need?

Originally Posted by daydreamer

aren't the cases and declensions in you're text book? what kind of help do you need?

Now that's an intelligent comment. What help do you need? - Oh, wait, Morgoth is banned. No help!

Originally Posted by daydreamer

aren't the cases and declensions in you're text book? what kind of help do you need?

Hey , I'm not trying to say you shouldn't help him!

3 declensions? I´m in Latin and I had to learn 5 of them (oh God, I´m so depressed).
the 4. was like manus (hand):

nom.:manus manus
voc.:manus manus
acc.:manum manus
gen.:manus manuum
dat.:manui manibus
abl.:manu manibus

the 5. went like dies (day):

nom.:dies dies
voc.:dies dies
acc.:diem dies
gen.:diei dierum
dat.: diei diebus
abl.:die diebus

corrct me if I´m wrong but I suck at Latin (and probably you also have different stuff to study)

There are actually 7 declensions. the other one is Locative. It's used with Location. like to say "at Rome" it is "Romi" i think. it just takes the dative form i think. either that or gen. I don't remember.

and I think manui is supposed to be mani. because "u" is part of the ending in the subjunctive.

I took 3yrs of latin. I hated it. But awesome teacher. He wanted me to come back but i couldn't do it. It lowers my GPA and made it nearly impossible for me to get pricipal's honor roll so i could leave 5minutes early to go to lunch and get into games for free. I still remember a lot of the stuff and I still have all my notes and 2 latin dictionaries. I'd never throw them away.

Nay, locatives aren't declensions, they're normal words meaning you are somewhere, you are going somewhere etc..

Err, I did need help with the declensions... as I am taking Latin (how convenient) but I'm having trouble memorizing words. I'm at chapter 8 in my book, which means I've got like, over 100 words now, and I cannot remember them all. Any suggestions?