Latin Lesson 14 & 15

LESSON 14

MORE ABOUT EST


Poeta est agricola means the poet is a farmer. Poeta is clearly the subject of the sentence so it would be is instead of he.

You only use est as he is when it's the subject of the sentence.

EXERCISES:

1. Agricola est poeta means the farmer is a poet.
2. Nauta non est means the sailor is a poet.
3. Poeta non est nauta means the poet is not a sailor.
4. Est nauta means he is not a sailor.
5. Nauta non est means the poet is not a sailor.
6. Poeta est agricola means the poet is a farmer.
7. Nauta non est agricola means the sailor is not a farmer.
8. Non es poeta means you are not a poet.
9. Ego agricola non sum means I am not a farmer.
10. Es et agricola et poeta means you are both a poet and a farmer.

LESSON 15

SINGULAR AND PLURAL

1. The car is red.
car (singular)
2. We have ice cream cones
we (plural)
3. Flowers are pretty.
flowers (plural)
4. I like blueberry pie.
I (singular)
5. They like hamburgers
they (plural)
6. Jimmy will go to school tomorrow.
Jimmy (singular)
7. Mary is a good clarinet player.
Mary (singular)
8. In France they speak French.
they (plural)
9. Many houses are on our street.
houses (plural)