Lingua Latin: Cap. XX Summary

Summary:
There is a baby who cannot speak sleeping in a cradle. Infants are breastfed by nursing mothers, and when the babies want food, they cry. Aemilia and Iulius have had many children, and Aemilia feeds her babies herself. Iulius wants the new baby to be a boy, but Aemilia wants it to be a girl. Iulius and Aemilia no longer love each other, and the baby sleeps in Iulius' room. 

Vocabulary:

• colloquium (conversation)
• pergere (to proceed)
• diligere (to love)
• profecto (indeed)

Grammar:

• Future Tense (something will happen)
• This chapter introduces two sets of endings for the future tense. One set of endings is used for verbs of the first and second conjugations (-āre and -ēre).

  	ACTIVE	PASSIVE
  I shall...	-bō	-bor
  you will...	-bis	-beris (-bere)
  he/she will...	-bit	-bitur
  we shall...	-bimus	-bimur
  you all will...	-bitis	-biminī
  they will...	-bunt	-buntur

  Another set of endings is used for verbs of the third and fourth conjugations (-ere and -īre)

  	ACTIVE	PASSIVE
  I shall...	-am	-ar
  you will...	-ēs	-ēris (-ēre)
  he/she will...	-et	-ētur
  we shall...	-ēmus	-ēmur
  you all will...	-ētis	-ēminī
  they will...	-ent	-entur

  
  
• Irregular Verbs: Volo & Nolo
• The forms of these two verbs are: 

  Subject	volō, velle to want, wish, be willing	nōlō, nōlle to not want, not wish, not be unwilling
  ego I	volō I want	nōlō I don't want
  tū you	vīs you want	nōn vīs you don't want
  is, ea, id he, she, it	vult  he/she wants	nōn vult he/she doesn't want
  nōs we	volumus we want	nōlumus  we don't want
  vōs you all	vultis you all want	nōn vultis  you all don't want
  eī, eae, ea they	volunt  they want	nōlunt they don't want