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Capitulum XX

Parentēs

  • The future: Latin can at last speak of what is not yet
  • -bō, -bis, -bit in the first two conjugations; -am, -ēs, -et in the rest
  • erō, poterō, ībō: the three irregulars of the future
  • The future passive: portābitur, alētur
  • carēre: what one lacks goes in the ablative, with no preposition
  • nōlī tacēre: Latin does not forbid, it refuses

16 words

Chapter notebook

Words seen

  • īnfāns infant, baby
  • cūnae cradle
  • lac milk
  • mulier woman
  • nūtrīx nurse
  • aliēnus another's, belonging to someone else
  • alō to feed, to bring up
  • sermō conversation, talk
  • gradus step, degree
  • careō to lack (+ ablative), to be without
  • mox soon
  • crās tomorrow
  • profectō certainly, assuredly
  • minimē not at all, by no means
  • sīve whether… or, or else
  • nōlō to be unwilling, to refuse (+ infinitive) — nōlī tacēre, “do not be silent”

Sentences seen

  • Cūnae hodiē vacuae sunt, sed īnfāns in cūnīs erit.

    The cradle is empty today, but an infant will be in the cradle.

  • Nūtrīx lac portat, nam īnfāns cibum sūmere nōn potest.

    The nurse carries milk for the infant cannot take food

  • Mulier īnfantem portābit.

    The woman will carry the infant.

  • Nūtrīx īnfantem alet.

    The nurse will feed the infant.

  • Mulier erō.

    I shall be a woman.

  • Nūtrīx īnfantem aliēnum lacte alet et mulier lac portābit.

    The nurse will feed another person's infant with milk, and the woman will carry milk.

  • Īnfāns sermōne caret, sed profectō nōn vōce.

    The infant lacks speech, but certainly not voice.

  • Crās Titus sermōnem audiet.

    Tomorrow Titus will hear the conversation.

  • Mox īnfāns lacte carēbit.

    Soon the infant will lack milk.

  • Crās ad lūdum ībimus.

    Tomorrow we shall go to school.

  • Nōlī īnfantem vocāre.

    Do not call the infant.

  • Crās nōs domī cibō carēre nōn volumus.

    Tomorrow we do not want to lack food at home.
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