Commands are a part of life, especially for a teacher. Watch this video! Like this video! Visit our site! Learn Latin! This video covers how the imperative (command) is used and formed in Latin.
Thanks! The 1st person plural command is taken up by the present subjunctive, called the jussive or hortatory use. I do not speak Spanish or Portuguese, but I'd be willing to learn if my teaching load ever lightened up. :)
Thank you so much! Your channel has helped me study for multiple latin assignments for which I did not have any review material. thanks for helping me a lot!!
It depends on your level. If you're already familiar with Latin grammar and need a reference book, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar is the best one out there, in my opinion. It's from the 19th century (but modern enough in its prose) and free to download. If you need a textbook, Wheelock's or Learn to Read Latin give the best explanations for adults. The Lewis Elementary Latin Dictionary is my favorite small book dictionary, but Cassell's is also good. And Lexidium or SPQR for iOS.
Yeah, that's tough. The problem with Google Translate is that Latin is sufficiently complex enough (because of its inflection and flexible word order) that its algorithms aren't very accurate, especially going English to Latin. However, with a good textbook for a good audodidact, you shouldn't need a check, just the practice.
If you mean the polite phrase "please", it's often "quaeso". Since it's its own verb ("I beg you"), it's often set off from the rest of the sentence, and had no particular word order.
@@user-qf9oo9ng6d Look at the second principal part of the verb. It ends in a -ere (a short e, followed by -re). So, ostendo, ostendere is a third conjugation verb because of ostendERE, while habeō, habēre is a second conjugation verb because it ends in an -ēre (a long e, followed by -re), habĒRE.
Are you asking about the plural for third conjugation verbs? If so, it's because the 3rd conjugation infinitive ends -ere, where the first e is short. Because it's short, it changes very easily into an i for the plural -ite ending.
You did better than most for your pronunce of "Horch"; the rest of humanity would have said it like "torch" but with a "H" for the "T". The way you said it would have been written "Horsch" which does sound like a German name, and I think actually is one. However " Horch" the "ch" would be like the Greek letter "chi" as in the Scottish for lo-ch, a throaty K sound. Incidentally ever since I have been doing Latin I wondered about the car name Audi, and lo and behold, you answer my thoughts.
Standard Classical Latin pronunciation says to stress the second to last syllable if it's long, the third to last if it's short. You may not have noticed the final -eh on a-mā-re and do-cē-re, but they are pronounced. As for Salvē, are you talking about the v pronounced as a "w"? We're pretty sure that it was like this during Caesar's and Vergil's time, and that the v shifted from the "w" to a "v" late in the Empire. Check out my videos on consonant and vowel pronunciation.
3rd person imperatives aren't very common, and is an antiquated form, e.g., esto. Instead many writers will use the jussive/hortatory subjunctive. There's also a future imperative, but that too isn't used very often.
There can be only one imperative in the sentence, and that's noli. vexare is an infinitive that follows from noli. Literally, the entire sentence is "be unwilling (noli) to annoy (vexare)".
Thank you very much for the video which (like your other videos) has been very helpful. One thing I have been struggling to find in any grammar reference is how to make imperatives from deponent verbs because their infinitives are passive in form. I think they must be made in the same way that passive imperatives are made albeit with an active meaning? It would be great if you did a second video on imperatives which would include passive imperatives (which would give the method of construction of active imperatives for deponent verbs too) and also include future imperatives.
thank you for your videos! how would you translate "always strive for the best?" your videos say to lead with an imperative, but is this how it would be said: semper ad optima contende? & i'm not sure why this keeps popping up when asking others: semper ad optima nitere or am i wrong altogether?
+Melinda C I'd put contende first, but that's a stylistic choice. Using nitere is fine, too, but it has more of a "struggling" connotation, as in "strive with effort".
Thanks, but I'm probably not worthy of that honor compared with others. I don't have a video directly talking about the passive periphrastic. If you go to my other account (brj4), watch the participle review and there will be a brief discussion of the passive periphrastic.
is that the same when you say "give me the wine" as Da mihi vinum? that sounds like something you'd use an imperative for, the verb is at the start and it has the dative 'mihi'
+Tommy _144 Not technically an "imperative", but the (hortatory or jussive) subjunctive can be used for a gentle third person command. But there is a third person imperative.
The singular passive imperative is identical to the present active infinitive: laudare, docere, ducere, and audire. The plural is identical with the passive indicative: laudamini, docemini, ducemini, audimini. It was rarely used in Latin, however, with the exception of deponent verbs (which only exist in the passive, but always with active meaning).
I suppose that would be something like "understood!" or "heard" or "accepted", as in a response to do you understand/hear/accept!" I think. I could be wrong.
