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Casa - Cottage

Declension of the Latin Noun Casa

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casa, -ae f. cottage, hut

Declension: Casa is a Latin noun of the first declension.

English Derivative: Casino

Familiar Spanish: Mi casa es su casa 'My house is your house.

Example and Tip:

Pliny's ghost story uses the noun in the form casa. Determine which case it could be in by running through the paradigm in your mind or by consulting the paradigm below. Note the macrons appear in this paradigm. There are no macrons in Rose William's version of Pliny's haunted house story, so you need to look for other clues to determine which part of speech it is in.

Full Declension

CASE
  Singular Plural
Nom. casa casae
Gen. casae casārum
Dat. casae casīs
Acc. casam casās
Abl. casā casīs

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