[Thea]

Hey Mr. Dwane, I just finished doing lesson 25 where we are introduced to 3rd declension nouns. When writing a sentence using an adjective and the subject is a third declension noun, how do I know what ending (masculine, feminine, or neuter) to use on the adjective? Because on the chart you used in 25A for the 3rd declension endings there was just the different cases, singular, and plural, not the genders.

Thank you for any help you can give😀

[Holly]

In 3rd declension, nouns that end in -er, -or are masculine think of (ERROR)

Nouns that end in -s, -0, -x (SOX) are feminine

Nouns that end in -l,-a, -n, -c, -e, -t (LANCET) are neuter

Nouns that name individual male persons are masculine (mīles, mīlitis, soldier)

Nouns that name individual female persons are feminine (māter, mātris, mother)

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by  Holly.

[Dwane Thomas]

Hi, Thea!

Holly’s note is helpful (Thanks, Holly!)

Also, I use this site all the time to figure out the declension and gender of nouns. I still get mixed up sometimes.

http://latin-dictionary.net/

[ecwetzel]

That is helpful