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Demonstratives Hic, Ille, Iste; Special -ius Adjectives The reason why I know just fine You make me sweat, you make me whine I do not love thee, Chapter Nine Chapter nine is a whole heap of memorization of declensions, and it was really, really annoying trying to figure out how to reduce them to a mnemonic. If I'd done it in Old MacDonald again, we'd be here memorizing verses for a week. Also be thankful you aren't stuck with I Am The Very Model of a Well-Declined Demonstrative, because I seriously considered it. Instead, you get this, which is to the tune of Friday I'm In Love: Ille, illius, illi, illum Illo in the ablative For male demonstratum In the feminine it goes: Illa, illus, illi, illam Oh, illa on the final rows When 'that' or 'those' are fem The neuter like so: Illud, illius, illi, illud For ablative it is illo The other demonstrative Hic, huius, huic, hunc Hoc is in the ablative For male demonstratunc In the feminine it goes: Haec, huius, huic, hanc Hac is on the final rows If of a feminine rank The neuter's mostly hoc: Hoc huius huic hoc And then you get another hoc This is only in the singular, because God loves us and wants us to be happy, and therefore decreed that in the plurals these monstrosities decline like first and second declension nouns. Except for 'hic' in the neuter. What do you do with a plural dem neuter? What do you do with a plural dem neuter When declining Latin? H-A-E-C is the right way! H-A-E-C is the right way! H-A-E-C is the right way Nom, Acc, Voc in pattern! Once you've got all this down, you're good for 'iste', too, because it's declined just like 'ille'. Likewise those '-ius' adjectives in the chapter. The book actually gives you an acronym the remember the adjectives - UNUS NAUTA (which means One Sailor). I find it more useful to group them by meaning and chant them: Any, only Neither, either Other, Another All Incidentally, this was the point in the proceedings where I started noticing that the stuff they assign you from that 38 Latin Stories book is really damn depressing! Pandora unleashes troubles and woes upon the world, Phaethon falls ten thousand feet and goes splat, Europa had to spend a good chunk of her life as a cow, being watched over by a monster, and Atreus chopped up his nephews and served them for dinner! Didn't the ancient Romans tell any happy stories?! EDIT: All right, you masochistic weirdos. You want I am the Very Model of a Well-Declined Demonstrative? You got it! I expect you to pay for the brain cells I killed writing this. When masculine and singular I'm ille in the nominative My genative is illius, I'm illi in the dative Illum is accusative and illo is ablative Just how in forma feminae I differ is here evident To proper mem'rization you should find there's no impediment I'm illa, then I'm illius and illi as when male To remember illam, illa surely none of you can fail To remember illam, illa surely none of you can fail To remember illam, illa surely none of you can fail To remember illam, illa surely none of you can you can fail Neuter genative and dative: illius, illi, still you spot 'em Just add illud to the top and illud, illo to the bottom And then in case and gender, too, and also in numerative You'll have the very model of a well-declined demonstrative And then in case and gender, too, and also in numerative You'll have the very model of a well-declined demonstrative Of course there's more than just one kind of well-declined demonstrative There's male hic and huius in nominative, genative I'm huic, hunc, and then I'm hoc, to illo not unlike it For those were 'this' and these are 'that' - fear not, you'll learn to like it This second type can likewise take on formae feminarum As haec, with the second two as formae mascularum Then finish up with hanc and hac, your cat knows how to call 'em Cogita de sounds of hairballs and you're certain to recall 'em Cogita de sounds of hairballs and you're certain to recall 'em Cogita de sounds of hairballs and you're certain to recall 'em Cogita de sounds of hairballs and you're certain to recall recall 'em When neuter I am male still in gen. and dative cases So change the others all to hoc to cover all your bases And then in case and gender, too, and also in numerative You'll have the very model of a well-declined demonstrative And then in case and gender, too, and also in numerative You'll have the very model of a well-declined demonstrative When you use me in the plural form, rejoice at realizing That you already did all over the rel'vant memorizing Forgive me if I spared 'til last this fact my song now mentions When plural I am very like the first two noun declensions Except of course for neuter, where I differ only slightly Put haec in slot one and four and you'll have done it rightly The last type of demonstrative is iste, ista, istud And it's declined exactly just like ille, illa, illud And it's declined exactly just like ille, illa, illud And it's declined exactly just like ille, illa, illud And it's declined exactly just like ille, illa, illa, illud When you're declining unus, solus, neuter, uter, nullus You'll find the ille endings, totus, alius, alter, ullus To match the case and gender too, and also the numerative Be glad you know the model of a well-declined demonstrative To match the case and gender too, and also the numerative Be glad you know the model of a well-declined demonstrative |