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Yes, from what I've seen all others are OK!

Those words in dative are in fact datives of possession:

http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/a ... e.373.html

Thanks. That's from the New Latin Grammar again, I need to find a copy of that book again. I wish I hadn't sold it before I finished studying it (although at the time I had given up studying Latin because I was busy with collegiate busywork while incurring $17,000 of debt.... ). Cool to learn about the dative of possession. Thanks.

Okay, here's the rest of the Unit I exercises that I've done in writing (which helps me to remember better):

VI.26 Insulam esse patriam habebat. "He had the island being (his) homeland".
27. Videre taedas patriae est nautis cura. "Seeing the torches of the homeland is a concern to the sailors."

VII Translating English to Latin.
1. The poets | will crown | a queen | from | the women | of the island.
"Poetae de feminis insulae reginam coronabunt.
2. Shall we be | with | the poet | on | the island.
"Erimusne cum poeta in insula?"
3. The sailors | kept on shouting | about | the punishment | of the women.
"Nautae de poena feminarum clamabant."
4. We fear | the reputation | of the poet.
"Famam poetae timent."
5. Ye | kept on giving | money | to the crowds | of sailors.
"Vos turbis nautarum pecuniam donabatis."
6. We desire | to see | women | in | our | native land.
"Feminas in patria nostra videre optamus."
7. The sailor | was | a poet| , but | he kept on fearing | both | money | and | fame.
"Nauta poeta erat, sed et pecuniam et famam timebat."

And now I'll be studying Unit 2, tomorrow.

Last week I had a lot of housework to do to get the place in order again and as such I needed to take a break from studying and have done so. What are my academic consequences for doing so? I need to review what I learned the week before last to bring it back into memory and then get started on the second unit of my textbook. What would have been the consequences if I were still in college? I would have missed an entire scheduled week of rigmarole and have to keep drudging onwards regardless. As it is, I can go back, learn everything available fully and continue on without skipping any material. Hence one major benefit of autodidacticism compared to college, the lack of arbitrary deadlines. Tomorrow I will present more of my homework here, if anyone cares.

Okay, these are not exercises but just part of studying:

A verb is usually listed in four inflected forms in a dictionary, the first person singular present active indicative first, the present active infinitive second, the first person singular perfect active indicative third, and the nominative perfect passive participle fourth. The third inflected form is the one of interest now, the perfect active indicative form. Consider the verb vastare, to destroy:

vasto, vastare, vastavi, vastatus.

In that list, vastavi is of interest now. The stem of the perfect form is vastav- and the endings for the rest of the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect endings are attached to it.

Here are they:

Perfect active indicative (A closer to present past tense completed action)

Singular:
I -i
II -isti
III -it

Plural:
I -imus
II -istis
III -erunt

Pluperfect active indicative (A further from present past tense completed action)

Singular:
I -eram
II -eras
III -erat

Plural:
I -eramus
II -eratis
III -erant

Future active indicative (A future tense action which shall be completed).

Singular:
I -ero
II -eris
III -erit

Plural:
I -erimus
II -eritis
III -erint

The prefect form that means an action was recently completed has unique endings, but the pluperfect and future perfect forms derive from the imperfect and future forms of the "to be" verb, esse.

I'll be posting some more homework tomorrow.

Subjunctives of vastare

Present active subjunctive

Singular
1st: vastem
2nd: vastes
3rd: vastet

Plural
1st: vastemus
2nd: vastetis
3rd: vastent


Imperfect active subjunctive

Singular
1st: vastarem
2nd: vastares
3rd: vastaret

Plural
1st: vastaremus
2nd: vastaretis
3rd: vastarent


Perfect active subjunctive

Singular
1st: vastaverim
2nd: vastaveris
3rd: vastaverit

Plural
1st: vastaverimus
2nd: vastaveritis
3rd: vastaverint


Pluperfect active subjunctive


Singular
1st: vastavissem
2nd: vastavisses
3rd: vastavisset

Plural
1st: vastavissemus
2nd: vastavissetis
3rd: vastavissent

On October 9th my mom died so my thoughts had been elsewhere for the last month, but I'm getting back to studying Latin and reviewing geometry and learning the trigonometric identities prior to completing my calculus textbook. I'll post more Latin homework here soon, but with a month being lost in grief I need to re-learn some of the material of the last chapter. I'm halfway through the homework, though, but need to actually know it in addition to just doing the work.

Ouch, I'm very sorry to hear that.

My condolences.

Thanks Booyakasha.