First and Second Declension Adjectives 

Wonderful!

Hey, thanks!

This is gold

Hey, congratulations!

Kindred Grove If a person's name is in accusative plural like 'Alexandrōs', then probably it means there are more than one person whose name is Alexander.

Aww honey. That's not how languages work...

@@flaviospadavecchia5126I could say that’s just a joke obviously…

I'm in this now 😂👏🏻

Well, that’s tricky, because the vocative would be used when the verb is second person, not third. So you wouldn’t have the name repeated, because the name would be used in the nominative only in the third person. And stay tuned, I’ve got a video on the vocative case coming out tomorrow.

Excellent, I spend over an hour a day listening to your voice so I feel like you're my personal tutor. My wife says "can you turn your latin bestie down please." lol Looking forward to the next video!

And I'm serious about the video tomorrow - there are a couple of interesting uses of the vocative that are tangentially related to your question. I think you'd be interested to learn about them!

@@latintutorial Oh i won't miss it! Thank you.

Mariana Flores I'm pretty sure it's whether it is singular or plural

ohhh thank you!

You can't mix genders - the adjective gender has to match with the noun it's modifying.

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I think he is not specialized in teaching that language, which really sucks

Clearly you're so much "better and smarter" than I when you have to ask this lol.

I am not as advanced in Latin as I am in other languages. You seem pretty desperate for reasons to mock me. This proves you are useless.........

Shadow Gengar It's okay if you're not so good in Latin, no need to call yourself useless because of that!

Although my Latin skills are not spot on, they are surely better than yours, my friend.

Ergo Latine pergamus! - te spero non mentitum esse cum dixisti te melius loqui posse...

No, not me!

Yeneneh Shiferaw well im sure that you can use them interchangeably like in English.

Natural languages don't often evolve according to what makes sense or what is practical, just look at all the irregular verbs you need to memorize in English or the completely screwed up spelling for an example. The Latin discussed here is also Classical Latin, a form of Latin mostly only spoken by the elite back then, who I can imagine used the fact that their language was overly complicated to pose themselves as smarter than everyone else. The general populous back then spoke Vulgar Latin, which has a greatly reduced level of complexity and is more akin to modern romance languages (no neuter gender, less case declension, and use of the demonstratives as articles). You are right, of course, a system like this is completely useless in communication and only makes it harder, but it opens up a lot of options in poetry and writing in general. Take for example the sentence "Puella pulchra puerum amat" (I'll assume you know some basic Latin). Because the adjective shows to which noun it belongs by sharing its features, you can move it away from the noun for stylistic effect. You could rewrite the sentence above as "Puella puerum pulchra amat" or "Puella puerum amat pulchra" without the meaning becoming unclear. And since you can in Latin also move around the nouns, this allows for a multitude of possible ways to say one thing. This might seem pointless to someone who only speaks a language with a very strict word order, like English, but I happen to speak German natively, which has a similar, although much less complex system, and can testify that reading a sentence like that is in fact a lot more fun and interesting, so it keeps the reader engaged and paying attention. It is very common for Latin authors to do this, so you'll come across it a lot if you delve into Latin deeper. Hope that answers your question.

JürgenFranziskusvonBraunschweigderDritte Thank you very much for your detailled answer! I specifically appreciated and enjoyed the example of the permutated sentence. (I natively speak German, too, so while thinking about the sentence you used, I began forming it in my mind: Das schöne Mädchen liebt den Jungen. Das Mädchen, schön, liebt den Jungen. Schön, liebt das Mädchen den Jungen. ...?) Now, regarding evolution of languages and complexity, I still think that modern English, even with irregular verbs, is much easier in terms of grammar than Classical Latin, and hence more practical. I like to add that I share you enthusiasm about (interesting, unusual) use of language. :)

You're quite welcome. When referencing German, I was more talking about the ability to structure a sentence in various ways in general, not specifically with adjectives. I didn't think I'd come across another german here, so it didn't completely apply. As for the practicality of a language, are we talking as an auxlang/interlang or just for native speakers? Because the complexity of a native language is almost irrelevant for the learning child, it'll just instinctively know what's correct. As an interlang, I have to agree that Latin would be completely unusable. Nice to see other likeminded language nuts out here. Have you ever checked out Japanese? It does almost all basic things quite differently from European languages.

Good point on native vs. foreign language! I assume many people learn English quite early, 1st or second foreign language. So there is a good chance they master it, if they have proper motivation. I have not yet made contact with Japanese, but I am interested in learning a sign language one day.