All 14 vocabulary words from Lesson 6 of Henle Latin Second Year, with English meanings, parts of speech, and forms.
| Latin | English | Part of speech | Form |
|---|---|---|---|
| abdō, abdere, abdidī, abditus, 3, tr. | hide / conceal | verb | third conjugation |
| dēdō, dēdere, dēdidī, dēditus, 3, tr. | give up / devote / surrender | verb | third conjugation |
| ego, meī | I (pl., we) | pronoun | personal pronoun |
| ejus | his / her / hers / its / of him, etc. | pronoun | possessive pronoun |
| eōrum, eārum | their / of them, etc. | pronoun | possessive pronoun |
| is, ea, id | he (pl., they) / she / it | pronoun | personal pronoun |
| meus, a, um | my / mine | adjective | possessive adjective |
| noster, nostra, nostrum | our / ours / our own | adjective | possessive adjective |
| recipiō, recipere, recēpī, receptus, 3, tr. | take back / withdraw / recover | verb | third conjugation -iō |
| suī | himself (him) / herself (her) / itself (it) / themselves (them) | pronoun | reflexive pronoun |
| suus, a, um | his (own) / her (own) / its (own) / their (own) | adjective | reflexive adjective |
| tū, tuī | you | pronoun | personal pronoun |
| tuus, a, um | your (of one person) / yours / your own | adjective | possessive adjective |
| vester, vestra, vestrum | your (of more than one person) / yours / your own | adjective | possessive adjective |
This lesson contains 6 pronouns, 5 adjectives and 3 verbs.
Ownership and reference need separate questions on this page. Meus and noster describe what belongs to the speaker or speakers; tuus and vester distinguish one listener from several. Suus ordinarily points back to the subject as owner, while ejus and eōrum or eārum identify someone else through genitive pronoun forms. Unlike a possessive adjective, ejus does not change to agree with the thing possessed. The verbs abdō, dēdō and recipiō give concrete actions of concealing, surrendering and taking back around those relationships. Challenge II week 6 explicitly compares personal pronouns, possessives and reflexives. Use an assigned sentence to identify speaker, subject and owner before translating. Before Lesson 7, distinguish your singular from your plural, explain the owner indicated by suus, and avoid changing ejus as though it were an adjective with three gender endings.
Forms in this lesson: possessive adjectives (4), 3rd-conjugation verbs (3).
In the Classical Conversations schedule, this lesson's vocabulary is assigned in Challenge II, week 6.
No. Ejus is a genitive pronoun form. Possessive adjectives such as meus agree with the thing possessed; ejus does not work that way.
Tuus addresses an owner who is one person. Vester addresses more than one owner. Both adjectives then agree with the thing possessed.
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