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Where to start in Latin

New to Latin? Start with the first lesson. If you have studied a little before, these quick questions find your place. Guessing is fine: nothing is saved.

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  1. In classical Latin, how is the c in Cicerō said?

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    like k. c is always hard, like k.

  2. What does Nautam puella vocat mean?

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    The girl calls the sailor.. puella has the subject ending.

  3. Which case shows the owner of something?

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    genitive. The genitive: "of the girl".

  4. What is the genitive plural of rosa?

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    rosārum. Genitive plural ends in -ārum.

  5. "a good farmer"

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    agricola bonus. agricola is masculine.

Your path through Latin

Each leaf is one lesson. Leaves fill in as you finish lessons (saved only in this browser). Each level ends with a self-test.

Basics

  1. Saying Latin out loud 4 min
  2. Endings do the work 3 min
  3. The five cases 3 min
  4. The first declension 3 min
  5. Adjectives agree with their nouns 3 min
  6. The second declension 4 min
  7. Predicate nouns and apposition 3 min
  8. Adjectives in all three genders 3 min
  9. Nouns in -ius, -er and -ir 4 min
  10. My, your, his, our 3 min
  11. Four ways to say "with" 3 min
  12. The nine irregular adjectives 4 min
  13. is, ea, id: this, that, he, she, it 3 min
Basics self-test

Intermediate

  1. sum: I am, I was, I shall be 3 min
  2. The present of amō and moneō 4 min
  3. The imperfect: was doing 4 min
  4. The future: will do 3 min
  5. The dative with adjectives 3 min
  6. The present of regō and audiō 4 min
  7. The imperfect of regō and audiō, and verbs that take the dative 3 min
  8. The future of regō and audiō 3 min
  9. capiō, and giving orders 3 min
  10. The passive: being done to 3 min
  11. The passive of regō, audiō and capiō; passive infinitives 3 min
  12. Synopses, and the ablative of "from" 3 min
  13. fuī, fueram, fuerō: the perfect tenses of sum 3 min
  14. The perfect active: did, have done 5 min
  15. Had done, will have done: pluperfect and future perfect active 3 min
  16. amātus sum: the perfect passive 4 min
  17. Principal parts, prepositions, and yes-or-no questions 5 min
  18. possum, "I can", and the infinitive 3 min
  19. quī, quae, quod: who, which, that 4 min
  20. rēx, rēgis: the third declension 4 min
  21. hostis, urbs, mare: i-stems 4 min
  22. vīs and iter; gender in the third declension 4 min
  23. omnis, ācer, pār: third-declension adjectives 3 min
  24. manus, cornū: the fourth declension 3 min
  25. Rōmae, domī, Athēnīs: place and the locative 4 min
  26. diēs, rēs: the fifth declension and the ablative of time 3 min
  27. ego, tū, sē: personal and reflexive pronouns 4 min
  28. ipse, "himself", and īdem, "the same" 3 min
  29. hic, iste, ille: this and that 4 min
  30. aliquis, quīdam, quisque: someone, a certain, each 3 min
  31. clārior, clārissimus: comparing adjectives 4 min
  32. melior, optimus: irregular comparison, plūs, and "by how much" 3 min
  33. clārē, fortiter: adverbs and their comparison 4 min
  34. ūnus, duo, trēs: numerals, "of" the whole, and "for how long" 5 min
  35. hortor, sequor: deponent verbs 3 min
Intermediate self-test

Advanced

  1. amem, regam, sim: the present subjunctive 4 min
  2. ut, nē, quī: purpose clauses 3 min
  3. amārem, essem: the imperfect subjunctive and the sequence of tenses 4 min
  4. amāverim, amāvissem; indirect commands 3 min
  5. possim; "I fear that …" 3 min
  6. amāns, amātus, amātūrus, amandus: participles 3 min
  7. volō, nōlō, mālō; the ablative absolute 4 min
  8. fīō; "so … that": result clauses 4 min
  9. "The man to lead us": clauses of characteristic 3 min
  10. cum: when, since, although 3 min
  11. amandī, ad urbem videndam: gerund and gerundive 4 min
  12. eō; "he said that …": indirect statement 4 min
  13. ferō; the dative with compounds; indirect questions 4 min
  14. The cases and the moods: a review 4 min
Advanced self-test