1. Education
About.com
Ancient / Classical History
See More About:

Latin Personal Pronouns Quiz

How well do you remember the Latin personal pronouns? Find out on this quiz.

Remember that m., f., and n. refer to the 3 genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and that s stands for singular, while pl stands for plural. The vocative and locative cases are not covered here. The remaining cases are: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, and Ablative.

This is a very short quiz. Some questions are easy. Number 2 may be difficult because of all the abbreviations. If you find it overwhelming, read through it aloud substituting the full word for the abbreviations. As soon as you find one wrong member of the set go on to the next choice.

1. If you see the form eius you can tell it is?
In the Nominative Case.
In the Masculine Gender.
In the Genitive Case.
In the Plural.

2. If you read the word ea in a text without macrons which of the following sets show the possibilities?
Nom. f., s.; Abl. f. s.; Nom. n. pl.; Acc. n. pl.
Nom. f. pl.; Nom. n. pl.; Nom. Acc. pl.
Acc. n. s.; Abl. f. s.; Nom. n. s.
Gen. m. s.; Gen. f. s.; Gen. n. s.

3. In which set of instances are the Ablative and Dative cases the same?
1st person singular; 3rd person singular.
1st person singular; 1st person plural; 2nd person plural.
2nd person singular; 2nd person plural.
3rd person plural masculine, feminine, and neuter.

4. In which set of instances are the Accusative and Ablative cases the same?
1st person singular masculine; 2nd person singular.
1st person singular; 3rd person singular.
1st person singular; 1st person plural; 2nd person plural.
3rd person plural masculine, feminine, and neuter.

5. Without more information, what can you say about the form ei?
It's in the plural.
It's in the Dative case.
It's in the Genitive case.
It's in the 1st person.

Score =
Correct answers:

Latin Personal Pronouns Table

About Latin Personal Pronouns

Other Quizzes

Discuss in my forum

©2012 About.com. All rights reserved.

A part of The New York Times Company.