Lesson 3: introduction to a-stem nouns, personal pronouns, and weak verbs
In this lesson, you will learn:
- how to decline the masculine and neuter a-stem nouns in the nominative and accusative cases
- how to conjugate present indicative active class I weak verbs in the 1st person singular, 3rd person singular, and the 3rd person plural
- the personal pronouns in the nominative case
- beginner vocabulary
a-stem nouns
First, we will learn how a-stem masculines and neuters decline in the nominative and accusative cases. If you do not understand the phrases "a-stem", "nominative", and/or "accusative", please review Lesson 2. The words used will be stáins "stone" (m-a)1 and waúrd "word" (n-a)1.
| a-stem nouns | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| nominative | stáins | stáinôs | waúrd | waúrda |
| accusative | stáin | stáinans | waúrd | waúrda |
1When you see (m-a), (n-a), or any letters in parentheses following a new word, this tells you what the gender and stem are. The first letter is the initial of the gender the noun belongs to, and after the dash is the stem. So, stains "stone" is a masculine a-stem.