Ch 01 questions
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:40 am
Salvete!
My name is Scott and I am on a self-study path to learning Latin. So far I have really enjoyed the Wheelock book. I have a couple of very basic questions I hope may be answered here.
On page 6 of the revised 6th edition the 2nd principal part of "do" is written as "dare" with a stress on the -a but no macron. I was under the impression that first conjugation verbs are identified by this long "a." Is this an error of omission or am I missing something?
My second question is in regards to learning the principal parts of the verbs. From what can see in this chapter's vocubulary it looks like first and second conjugation verbs might follow a pattern. What I mean is it looks like the form for 1st conj is often
-o, -are, -avi, -atum
while second is often
-o, -ere, -ui, -itum
of course I see that "video" appears to stray from this possible pattern but I am looking for anything that may help me commit all the principal parts to memory as well as intuitively guess those for new words as I encounter them.
Many thanks in advance!
Scott
My name is Scott and I am on a self-study path to learning Latin. So far I have really enjoyed the Wheelock book. I have a couple of very basic questions I hope may be answered here.
On page 6 of the revised 6th edition the 2nd principal part of "do" is written as "dare" with a stress on the -a but no macron. I was under the impression that first conjugation verbs are identified by this long "a." Is this an error of omission or am I missing something?
My second question is in regards to learning the principal parts of the verbs. From what can see in this chapter's vocubulary it looks like first and second conjugation verbs might follow a pattern. What I mean is it looks like the form for 1st conj is often
-o, -are, -avi, -atum
while second is often
-o, -ere, -ui, -itum
of course I see that "video" appears to stray from this possible pattern but I am looking for anything that may help me commit all the principal parts to memory as well as intuitively guess those for new words as I encounter them.
Many thanks in advance!
Scott