Cases

Question 1

Nominative

Answer 1

Job : subject of the verb (with the verb ‘to be’)

Servus laborat- The slave is working

Marcus est servus - Marcus is a slave.

Question 2

VOCATIVE

Answer 2

Job - person being spoken to

Examples

serve, quid facis ? Slave, what are you doing?

Question 3

ACCUSATIVE

Answer 3

Job - object of the action

Examples-

servum punio - I am punishing the slave

ad servum currit - He is running towards the slave

I have a dog

• The word “have” is doing the owning*
• The word “dog” is getting owned*

Question 4

GENETIVE

Answer 4

Job - of

Examples

dominus servi est felix. - the master of the slave is happy

Question 5

DATIVE

Answer 5

Job - to, for

examples

pecuniam servo dat - He gives money to the slave

Question 6

ABLATIVE

Answer 6

job - by, with, from

Examples

puerum gladio vulnerat - he wounds the boy with his sword