All 6 vocabulary words from Lesson 32 of Henle Latin First Year, with English meanings, parts of speech, and forms.
| Latin | English | Part of speech | Form |
|---|---|---|---|
| ab (ā) | away from; from | preposition | with ablative |
| cadō, cadere, cecidī, cāsūrus | fall | verb | 3rd conjugation (intransitive) |
| dē | down from; from | preposition | with ablative |
| discēdō, discēdere, discessī, discessūrus | depart; withdraw | verb | 3rd conjugation (intransitive) |
| ex (ē) | out of; from | preposition | with ablative |
| nāvis, nāvis | ship | noun | feminine · 3rd declension |
This lesson contains 3 prepositions, 2 verbs and 1 noun.
Three prepositions describe departure with different emphasis: ab suggests away from, dē down from, and ex out of. All take the ablative, but sharing a case does not make them identical in meaning. Picture leaving a ship, moving down from a height, and moving away from a point to give each one its own spatial cue. Cadō and discēdō are intransitive verbs here: falling and withdrawing do not automatically require a direct object. Their entries end with future active participles, cāsūrus and discessūrus, which should not be mistaken for passive forms. Challenge I reaches these words in week 17 during translation and grammar review. Before the next page, match each preposition to its particular movement, identify nāvis as feminine from the entry, and recognise the verbs' perfect forms cecidī and discessī when the present headword is absent.
Forms in this lesson: prepositions taking the ablative (3), 3rd-conjugation verbs (2), 3rd-declension nouns (1).
In the Classical Conversations schedule, this lesson's vocabulary is assigned in Challenge I, week 17.
No. Their central spatial meanings differ: away from, down from and out of. Context may broaden them, but the distinctions remain useful.
No. They are future active participles. Their endings differ from the perfect passive forms often supplied for transitive verbs.
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