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Elementary Latin I
(LATIN 131)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorr"AT"willamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton
Office Hours: W 11:30-12:30 pm
and by appointment, 306 Eaton

Answer Key to the Exercises GVE p. 4

Morphology
1. es, sunt, est, est, estis, sunt, est, sum, est
2. sumus, est, es, sunt, sum, estis

Reading [sentence meanings as affected by irregular word order]
(a) It's a/the household.
(b) A female servant, that's what Staphyla is.
(c) For there is (in fact) a pot full of gold.
(d) a cook, that's what the male servant is.
(e) Phaedra is a/the daughter.
(f) In the house, that's where Euclio, Phaedra, and the slave woman are.
(g) a miser (Lat. miser = adj.!), that's what the old man is.
(h) There is a small field near the river.

English-Latin [practices your sense for the intricacies of Latin word order]
(a) est in familia serva.
(b) serva in aedibus est.
(c) serva/servus es.
(d) serva Euclionis Staphyla est.
(e) Euclio sum.
(f) Euclio et Phaedra sumus.