LATIN ADJECTIVES linguae拉丁语形容词舌.pptVIP

THE –ER VARIATION A few adjectives (like a few nouns in the 2nd. Declension) have a Masculine Nominative singular ending -er instead of –us: miser (miserable, wretched) līber (free) sacer (sacred) pulcher (beautiful) All the other forms of such adjectives (i.e. the other masculine cases and all of the Feminine and Neuter ones) add the normal endings after the r, with the preceding e sometimes retained and sometimes dropped: (keeping e): miser, misera, miserum līber, lībera, līberum (dropping e): sacer, sacra, sacrum pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum