The direct object is the receiver of an action in a sentence.

Look at the two sentences below canis virum mordet dog bites man and vir canem mordet man bites dog In the rst sentence, man is the direct object, in the second, the dog. English uses word order to show the direct object and Latin uses the accusative.

DIRECT OBJECT

VS

canis virum mordet

canem vir mordet

Latin uses the accusative case to indicate that something is the direct object. The most frequent ending that you will recognize in your early studies is -m as in puellam, cibum, canem for the singular form. However there is also the plural form of these puellas, cibos, canes.

M
sing plur sing plur sing plur

TRANSITIVE VERBS
Not all verbs have direct objects. For example, the verbs to sleep and to wait do not take a direct object. To decide if a verb takes a direct object you can use the example sentence:

ACCUSATIVE ENDINGS
You can nd the ACCUSATIVE case by adding the endings in the chart to the genitive or second form of the noun. For example the accusative form of vox, vocis f voice would be vocem and not voxem. This di culty is mainly in the third type of nouns.

The velociraptor _____________s the bunny.

If the sentence means something, the verb is transitive (takes a direct object). If the sentence sounds completely meaningless, the verb is intransitive (doesnt take a direct object). Transitive means goes across and shows that an action is going across the line from the subject to the object.

The direct object is the receiver of an action in a sentence. Look at the two sentences below canis virum mordet dog bites man and vir canem mordet man bites dog In the rst sentence, man is the direct object, in the second, the dog. English uses word order to show the direct object and Latin uses the accusative.

DIRECT OBJECT
The direct object is the receiver of an action in a sentence. Look at the two sentences below canis virum mordet dog bites man and vir canem mordet man bites dog In the rst sentence, man is the direct object, in the second, the dog. English uses word order to show the direct object and Latin uses the accusative.

DIRECT OBJECT

VS

VS

canis virum mordet

canem vir mordet

canis virum mordet

canem vir mordet

Latin uses the accusative case to indicate that something is the direct object. The most frequent ending that you will recognize in your early studies is -m as in puellam, cibum, canem for the singular form. However there is also the plural form of these puellas, cibos, canes.

Latin uses the accusative case to indicate that something is the direct object. The most frequent ending that you will recognize in your early studies is -m as in puellam, cibum, canem for the singular form. However there is also the plural form of these puellas, cibos, canes.

M
sing plur sing plur

TRANSITIVE VERBS

TRANSITIVE VERBS
sing plur Not all verbs have direct objects. For example, the verbs to sleep and to wait do not take a direct object. To decide if a verb takes a direct object you can use the example sentence:

sing

sing

sing

plur

plur

plur

Not all verbs have direct objects. For example, the verbs to sleep and to wait do not take a direct object. To decide if a verb takes a direct object you can use the example sentence:

ACCUSATIVE ENDINGS

The velociraptor _____________s the bunny.

You can nd the ACCUSATIVE case by adding the endings in the chart to the genitive or second form of the noun. For example the accusative form of vox, vocis f voice would be vocem and not voxem. This di culty is mainly in the third type of nouns.

If the sentence means something, the verb is transitive (takes a direct object). If the sentence sounds completely meaningless, the verb is intransitive (doesnt take a direct object). Transitive means goes across and shows that an action is going across the line from the subject to the object.

ACCUSATIVE ENDINGS
You can nd the ACCUSATIVE case by adding the endings in the chart to the genitive or second form of the noun. For example the accusative form of vox, vocis f voice would be vocem and not voxem. This di culty is mainly in the third type of nouns.

The velociraptor _____________s the bunny.

If the sentence means something, the verb is transitive (takes a direct object). If the sentence sounds completely meaningless, the verb is intransitive (doesnt take a direct object). Transitive means goes across and shows that an action is going across the line from the subject to the object.