3.1. ADJETIVOS DE LA 1ª CLASE (TIPO BONUS, -A, -UM)
Grammar Class: Latin Adjective Declensions
In this class, the instructor discusses the declension of adjectives in Latin, focusing on the 1st Class type bonus, -a, -um adjectives with three terminations. The declension follows models from the first and second declensions.
Declension of Adjectives
- The instructor explains how to decline adjectives using examples like bonus, bona, bonum following the models of masculine (dominus), feminine (rosa), and neuter (templum) nouns.
- Variants in "r" are discussed using the example of miser, misera, miserum which declines similarly to puer, -i with different terminations compared to bonus, bona, bonum.
- Adjectives ending in "r" like niger, nigra, nigrum are explained where only nominative and vocative singular masculine forms have "e," resembling ager, agri declension.