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Deponent verbs are verbs which look passive, but have an active meaning. We are used to seeing active verbs, like ' capio ', meaning 'I take or capture', where the subject of the verb is doing the action the...

Before we attempt to translate an example of an ablative absolute, it is important that we are able to confidently identify an ablative absolute phrase within a sentence. An ablative absolute consists of a n...

When you're given a sentence, the first thing to do is think of any Latin vocab that matches the English: eg. 'forum' is also 'forum' in Latin, and you probably know that a girl is 'puella', if you've used t...

Technically speaking, a gerund is a verbal noun and a gerundive is a verbal adjective. Gerunds and gerudnives both look very similar - the key feature in the words is a 'nd'. For example: amandi, vivendo, po...

Indirect statement denotes indirect speech: not 'He ran' but 'I said that he ran'. The construction that Latin uses is the accusative and infinitive after the introductory verb, and so in the example, 'I sai...