Latin Notes: First Declension and Noun Cases (How to Decline and Use Noun Cases)

This presentation teaches students how to decline Latin nouns and how to use nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative cases. The notes walk students through a step-by-step process for declining first declension nouns, including ample examples and practice.

These notes start the First Declension and Noun Cases Unit.

All practice slides are accompanied by an answer key slide.

At the end of the presentation, students should know:

• The unit's key terms:
  • Genitive
  • Dative
  • Ablative
  • Vocative
  • Decline
  • Case
  • Stem/Base
• What each Latin noun case does in a sentence (subject, possession, indirect object, direct object, object of a preposition, and direct address)
• How to translate each Latin noun case using keywords like "of" and "to/for"
• First declension noun endings
• How to find the stem/base of a Latin noun
• How to decline first declension nouns in a chart that includes nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative cases with their meanings in English