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Wheelock's FAQ chapter 16: Questions

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Category: Vocabulary
VOC
What are some adjectives of three endings?
Category: Practice/Repetition sentences (PR's)
PR12
In trying to translate, "with their two sweet daughters." I understand that both adjectives "two sweet" modify daughters (feminine plural), and possibly take the accusative case??? I'm also stuck with "their," I'm not sure what gender "their" should be, whether it agrees with "father and mother" (eOrum/eArum), or "two sweet daughters" (eArum). I ended up with: "cum eArum duas dulces filiAs."
Category: Sententia Antiquae (SA's)
SA9
I can't make sense out of SA 9.
SA10
In SA 10, what's the case of "omnI"?

Wheelock's FAQ chapter 16: Answers

Category: Vocabulary
VOC:
What are some adjectives of three endings?
A:

Answer by Michael Pajak (Macfaust@aol.com):

This class of adjectives is rather rare and consists of only 25 words: (Some grammarians list them as exceptions to the adjectives of 2 endings.)

Here they are: 

acer 
alacer 
campester 
celeber 
celer 
December 
equester 
inceleber 
insaluber 
Insuber 
involucer 
November 
October 
paluster 
pedester 
perceleber 
perceler 
puter 
saluber 
semivolucer 
September 
sequester 
silvester 
terrester 
volucer
Category: Practice/Repetition sentences (PR's)
PR12:
In trying to translate, "with their two sweet daughters." I understand that both adjectives "two sweet" modify daughters (feminine plural), and possibly take the accusative case??? I'm also stuck with "their," I'm not sure what gender "their" should be, whether it agrees with "father and mother" (eOrum/eArum), or "two sweet daughters" (eArum). I ended up with: "cum eArum duas dulces filiAs."
A:
  1. It could be a reflexive possessive (check out chapter 13). They're coming to the city with their own sweet daughters. Here, since it's an adjective it matches what it modifies, the filiabus.
  2. It could be a non-reflexive possessive (chapter 11). They're coming to the city with somebody else's daughters. So, since it's a genitive pronoun, it matches the original noun the pronoun points to. There's only one problem with this: who is that? Strictly speaking, you can't tell from the context, but since they are "their" daughters, I think we can assume "they" would mean another man and woman. The mixed gender plural would thus be rendered "eorum".

Which is right? Take your pick. To me, unless there's overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I'd assume it's their own daughters.

Category: Sententia Antiquae (SA's)
SA9:
I can't make sense out of SA 9.
A:

Kirk's answer:

Ars is nominative singular and is modified by poetica. "The poetic art" Your verb is "est".

Looking at "non omnia dicere", we note that omnia is nom/acc pl, but since we already have a nominative (ars), it must be accusative and probably thus the object of a verb, dicere in this case. The "non" negates the sense of the verb.
SA10:
In SA 10, what's the case of "omnI"?
A:

Kirk's answer:

If you take another look in Wheelock, 3rd declension adjectives end in -i in the ablative singular (nouns end in -e unless they are i-stems, in which case they end in -i).
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