A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language/Lesson 14

=Of the Plural of Pronouns.=

A. The plural of the personal pronouns egō, tū is nōs, "we", and vōs, "you". The remaining cases are:&mdash;

Remark.&mdash;The difference between nostrī, vestrī and nostrum, vestrum consists in this: that the latter are chiefly used as partitive genitives after interrogatives, numerals, comparatives, and superlatives, and the former after other words; e.g. uter nostrum? which us two? nēmō vestrum, no one of you; vestrum prīmus, the first of you; but miserērī nostrī, pity us; amor nostrī, of (toward) us; vestrī similēs, your like (those like you).

B. The pronoun of the third person is illī, illae, illa, "they", of which the remaining cases are:&mdash;

C. The reflexive suī is the same in the pural as in the singular. The intensive ipse has ipsī, ipsae, ipsa. Thus:&mdash;

Remark.&mdash;We thus say, as in the singular, nōs ipsī (or fem. ipsae, we ourselves; vōs ipsī (or fem. ipsae), you yourselves; and illī ipsī (or fem. illae ipsae) or simply ipsī, they themselves; ea ipsa, these things themselves, &c.

D. The plurals of the demonstrative pronouns hīc, ille, iste, and is are hī, illī, istī, and iī. The remaining genders and cases are as follows:&mdash;

E.	The relative quī, quae, quod (and also the interrogatives of the same form) makes its plural in quī, quae, quae, "who, which, or that", or interrogatively "which? what?" Thus:&mdash;

Remark.&mdash;For quibus, in the relative sense, there is an antiquated form quīs or queis, which is not unfrequently employed by prose-writers of a later period.

F.	The pural of the determinative is, ea, id is the same as that of the demonstrative; that of idem is as follows:&mdash;

Remark.&mdash;The form iīsdem is more common than eīsdem. The same is true of iīs, iī, eīs, and eī.

G. The plural of the relative in connection with the determinative is, ea, id (vide Lesson 12. D) is as follows:&mdash;

In the same manner decline illī&mdash;quī, illae&mdash;quae, illa&mdash;quae, "those which"; and iīdem&mdash;quī, eaedem&mdash;quae, eadem&mdash;quae, "the same which."

G. Obs. The antecedent of the relative is sometimes repeated in connection with the prnoun of the second clause. Sometimes it is expressed with the relative only, and sometimes (though rarely) it is entirely omitted.

H. Rule. Adjectives and pronouns of the neuter gender, both singular and plural, are frequently employed substantively, as hoc, "this (thing)", illud, "that (thing,)" haec, "these things," illa, "those things," triste, "a sad thing," multa, "many things," omnia, "all things," summum bonum, "the chief good".

Exercise 15.
See the answers here.


 * 1) Have you these horses or those? — I have not these, but those.
 * 2) Have you the coats of the French or those of the English? — I have not those of the French, but those of the English.
 * 3) Have you the pretty sheep of the Turks or those of the Spaniards? — I have neither those of the Turks nor those of the Spaniards, but those of my brother.
 * 4) Has your brother the fine asses of the Spaniards or those of the Italians? — He has neither those of the Spaniards nor those of the Italians, but he has the fine asses of the French.
 * 5) Which oxen has your brother? — He has those of the Germans.
 * 6) Has your friend my large letters or those of the Germans? — He has neither the one nor the other (neque hās neque illās, or neque illās neque alterās).
 * 7) Whīch letters has he? — He has the small letters whīch you have.
 * 8) Have I these houses or those. — You have neither these nor those.
 * 9) Which houses have I? — You have those of the English.
 * 10) Has any one the tall tailor's gold buttons? — Nobody has the tailor's gold buttons, but somebody has those of your friend..

Exercise 16.
See the answers here.


 * 1) Have I the notēs of the foreigners or those of my boy. — You have neither those of the foreigners nor those of your boy, but those of the great Turks.
 * 2) Has the Turk my fine horse.  — He has it not.
 * 3) Which horse has he? — He has his own.
 * 4) Has your neighbor my chicken or my sheep? — My neighbor has neither your chicken nor your sheep.
 * 5) What has he? — He has nothing good.
 * 6) Have you nothing fine? — I have nothing fine.
 * 7) Are you tired? — I am not tired.
 * 8) Which rice has your friend? — He has that of his merchant.
 * 9) Which sugar has he? — He has that whīch I have.
 * 10) Has he your merchant's good coffee or that of mine? — He has neither that of yours nor that of mine; he has his own.
 * 11) Which ships has the Frenchman? — He has the ships of the English.
 * 12) Which housēs has the Spaniard? — He has the same whīch you have.
 * 13) Has he my good knives. — He has your good knives.
 * 14) Has he the linen stockings which I have? — He has not the same that you have, but those of his brother.
 * 15) Vhich books have you? — I have those of the Romans.
 * 16) Are those men hungry? — They are not hungry, but thirsty. — They are neither tired nor sleepy.

Footnotes.
$$ From the diminitive libellus, ī, m., a little book, a pamphlet. (Compare Lesson 20 E. 7.). $1$ The question, "Have you the books which the men have?" may thus be expressed in several ways: 1) Habēsne tū illōs librōs, quōs hominēs habent? 2) Habēsne tū illos librōs, quōs librōs hominēs habent? 3) Habēsne tū quōs librōs hominēs habent? The first of these is the most general. The antecedent is entirely suppressed in: 4) Sunt quī (or quōs), for Sunt hominēs quī (or quōs), "There are those who", "There are men whom."