Review Worksheet H - Imperative and Vocative Forms

I. THE IMPERATIVE MOOD for VERBS

A.  The imperative mood is a verb form used to express a ___________________.

B.  The singular form of the imperative is the same form as the ______________ stem.

C.  To make the plural form of the imperative you ad the letters _______ to the singular form.

D.  For 3rd and 3rd-iō verbs the ‘e’ of the singular form changes to an ______ before adding -te

     to make the plural form.

E.  Dico, -ere(to say); ducō, -ere (to lead), faciō, -ere to make/do); and ferō, ferre (to

     carry/bear) are four 3^rd conjugation verbs that have irregular imperatives in the

     singular.  Where we expect the imperative to end in an –e, there is none.  You can

     remember this by the saying, “dīc, duc, fac, fer should have an ‘e’, but it’s not there. 

F.  Give the imperative forms for the following verbs.

                                                  singular                              plural

ponō, ponere                ___________________   ___________________

dicō, dicere                 ___________________   ___________________

faciō, facere                  ___________________   ___________________

fugiō, fugere                  ___________________   ___________________

ferō, ferre                     ___________________   ___________________

cogitō, cogitāre ___________________   ___________________

G.  To give a negative command (ex. “don’t do that”), Latin uses a slightly different construction: the imperative of nolo (“I don’t want”) plus a complementary infinitive.  The imperatives of nolo are nolī and nolite.

H.  Translate the following sentences:

            i.  nolī currere, Arge! ___________________________

            ii.  nolite dormīre, servī! ___________________________

I.  Write these sentences in Latin:

            i.  Don’t go, friends! ________________________

            ii.  Don’t play, Quintus! ___________________________

II.  THE VOCATIVE CASE for NOUNS

A.  The vocative is a noun case used to give a  ______________________.

B.  The vocative has the same forms as the _________________.

C.  One exception to this rule is the ________ declension, __________ gender, whose

     nominative ends in _____.  For these nouns the vocative ends in ________.

D.  The vocative is often set off from the rest of the sentence by a ________________.

E.  Most of the time the vocative is used with an ______________ or in a ____________.

F.  Identify the declension number and give the vocative form for the following nouns.

                        declension                            singular                                      plural

puella, -ae        ________                    ___________________   ___________________

vir, virī              ________                    ___________________   ___________________

miles, -itis         ________                    ___________________   ___________________

servus, -ī          ________                    ___________________   ___________________

pater, -tris        ________                    ___________________   ___________________

puer, puerī        ________                    ___________________   ___________________

femina, -ae       ________                    ___________________   ___________________