Commands: ama!, amate!

Level 2

Commands for one person and for several.

How It Works

Four verbs drop the final -e: dic (say), duc (lead), fac (make) and fer (carry). Say dic. The old form dice belongs to early Latin.

A command often calls the person by name: Audi, Iulia. The name is in the form for calling someone.

Dic sounds like DEEK and duc like DOOK in both journeys, because c comes at the end of the word.

The command to come is veni to one person and venite to several. The refrain of the hymn Adeste fideles begins with venite.

Audi, Iulia.
Listen, Iulia.
Audi is the singular command of audire.
Audite, amici.
Listen, friends.
Audite is the plural command, with -te.
Cape librum.
Take the book.
Cape is the singular command of capere.
Duc amicos in villam.
Lead the friends into the house.
Duc has lost its final e. In villam is in plus the accusative.
Dic, Marce.
Speak, Marcus.
Dic is the short command of dicere. Marce calls Marcus.

Keeping the e on dic.
Dice, Marce.
Dic, Marce.
Dice is an old form from early Latin. In the Latin you will read, dic, duc, fac and fer lose the final e.
Using the plural command for one person.
Audite, Iulia.
Audi, Iulia.
Audite is for several people. Iulia is one person, so the command is audi.

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Commands: ama!, amate!Level 2

Each singular command is cut from the infinitive of its family, so the five infinitives come first.

Patterns that build on this one.

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