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23 Cards in this Set
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How many things happen to a Noun Substantive?
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Six things happen to a Noun Substantive:
Gender Number Case Declension Figure Kind |
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What is Gender?
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Gender is a certain distinction of sex.
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How many genders are there?
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There are five genders:
1. the Masculine 2. the Feminine 3. the Neuter 4. the Common-of-Two 5. the Common-of-Three |
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the Masculine
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male
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the Feminine
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female
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the Neuter
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before which is commonly put the pronoun hoc, as hoc mancipium, a servant;
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the Common-of-Two
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can be either Masculine or Feminine
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the Common-of-Three
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can be Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter
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Which gender belongs only to noun adjectives?
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the Common-of-Three
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Accidents
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"things that happen to nouns"
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arbor
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tree
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feminine noun
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gladius
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sword
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masculine noun
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parens
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parent
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noun
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puer
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boy
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noun
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pueri
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boys
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noun
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singular
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signifies one thing
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plural
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signifies many things
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hic dominus
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this Lord
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Masculine noun
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haec ancilla
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this handmaiden
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Feminine noun
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hoc mancipium
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this servant
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neuter noun
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hic
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this (masculine)
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haec
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this (feminine)
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hoc
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this (neuter)
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