Latin/Nouns

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Genders[edit | edit source]

a gender is the way you refer to an object. With people and living things, you refer to it by their sex, however most inanimate objects get their gender and by their nature. in English the two genders are masculine and feminine. however, in Latin, there are three genders masculine, feminine, and neuter. they are usually modified by their suffix or their declension, but there are exceptons [1]

Number[edit | edit source]

For nouns there are two numbers, singular and plural. singular is used when there 1 of the noun in question and plural at any other time. note that it is different then person, which is for verbs instead of nouns and will be covered later

Case[edit | edit source]

  1. agricola is the latin masulin noun for farmer, but it ends in a, which is usually reserved for feminine words