Ecce Romani Chapter 7

So far we have learned the singular endings for direct objects (-am, -um, -em)

Plural nouns and adjectives that are used as direct objects usually end in -s preceded by a long vowel.

multās epistulās, multōs servōs, and senātōrēs Rōmānōs

Multās epistulās scrībit. He writes many letters.

Multōs servōs spectant. They watch many slaves.

Senātōrēs Rōmānōs revocat. He recalls the Roman senators.

We have already discussed how nouns have gender, now we are going to introduce two other ways of talking about nouns.

Case: the case of a noun tells us how it is functioning in the sentence. We are already familiar with the idea of subject and direct object. Moving forward we will call these the Nominative case and the Accusative case.

Declension: the declension of a noun tells us what endings to expect on the noun. While there are many different declensions, many words fit into one of three declensions.

Puerī: 2nd declension, nominative, plural, masculine

arborem: 3rd declension, accusative, singular, feminine

agrīs: we have not learned this ending yet so we cannot fully categorize it at this time.