Latin

Hard c, v like w, and where the stress falls.

In Latin, the ending of a word shows its job, not its place in the sentence.

Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative: five jobs a noun can do.

All ten forms of puella, and which -a nouns are masculine.

bona puella, nauta bonus: the adjective matches the noun's gender, number and case.

dominus and pīlum: masculine -us nouns and neuter -um nouns.

When two nouns name the same person, they share the same case.

bonus, bona, bonum: one adjective, three sets of endings.

fīlius, puer, ager, vir: second-declension nouns with a twist.

meus, tuus, suus, noster, vester: possessives that agree with the thing owned.

The ablative of cause, means, accompaniment and manner, and when to use cum.

ūnus, nūllus, sōlus, tōtus and friends: genitive -īus, dative -ī.

One word for "this" and "that", which also stands in for he, she and it.

The verb "to be" in the present, imperfect and future.

The first two conjugations, and how the infinitive tells you which is which.

The tense sign -bā- for actions going on in the past.

The tense sign -bi- for the first two conjugations.

"Friendly to", "pleasing to", "near to": adjectives that take the dative.

The third and fourth conjugations, and the vowel that changes.

regēbam, audiēbam; and why "obey" and "believe" take the dative.

regam, regēs, reget: a new tense sign, and a look-alike trap.

-iō verbs of the third conjugation, and the imperative: amā! audīte!

amor, amāris, amātur: the passive endings for the first two conjugations.

regor, regeris, regitur; regī, "to be ruled".

Place from which, separation, and "by" a person with the passive.

Principal parts, the perfect stem, and three tenses of completed action.

amāvī, monuī, rēxī, cēpī, audīvī, and when to use the perfect or the imperfect.

amāveram, amāverō, and the perfect infinitive amāvisse.

The perfect passive participle, and passive perfects made with sum.

Four parts for every verb, which case each preposition takes, and -ne, nōnne, num.

possum, potes, potest; the infinitive that completes a verb, takes a subject, or acts as a noun.

The relative pronoun, its agreement rule, and the question words quis and quid.

Consonant stems, the genitive that holds the key, and the endings -is, -ī, -em, -e.

Third-declension nouns with -ium in the genitive plural, and neuters with -ī and -ia.

Two irregular nouns, and rules of thumb for telling masculine, feminine and neuter.

Adjectives of three, two and one ending, all with -ī in the ablative.

Nouns in -us with a genitive in -ūs, and neuters in -ū.

To, from and in a place, and why towns, home and the country drop the preposition.

The last declension, and how Latin says "on that day" and "in summer" with no preposition.

I, you, we; "himself" and "themselves"; and mēcum, "with me".

The intensive pronoun and the demonstrative īdem, eadem, idem.

Three demonstratives that point near me, near you, and over there.

The indefinite pronouns, built from quis and quī.

-ior and -issimus, the -er and -lis exceptions, and quam or the ablative for "than".

good–better–best in Latin, plūs, and the ablative of the measure of difference.

Making adverbs from adjectives, comparing them, and the irregular bene, melius, optimē.

Counting to twenty, the partitive genitive, and the accusative of extent.

Verbs with passive forms and active meanings.

A new mood for wishes, commands to ourselves and ideas rather than facts.

"In order to" in Latin prose is never an infinitive. It is usually ut (or nē) with the subjunctive.

The infinitive plus endings, and how the main verb picks the tense of the subjunctive.

The perfect and pluperfect subjunctive, and "he urged them to …" with ut or nē.

The subjunctive of possum, and why nē means "that" after a verb of fearing.

Four participles, what time each shows, and how to turn them into good English.

Wish, be unwilling, prefer; and "with Caesar leading", Latin's favourite compact clause.

The passive of faciō, and ut / ut nōn with the subjunctive for consequences.

Relative clauses with the subjunctive that describe what kind of person or thing, and the predicate accusative.

The three meanings of the conjunction cum, which mood follows, and the ablative of specification.

The verbal noun "-ing" and its adjective partner, purpose with ad or causā, and the predicate genitive.

The verb "go", and how Latin reports what someone says or thinks with an accusative and infinitive.

The irregular verb "carry", compounds that take the dative, and "he asked who …" with the subjunctive.

The dative of purpose, description by genitive or ablative, and every use of the cases and the subjunctive in one place.