Chapter 27 GrammarPart I: Gerunds

Gerunds

• A gerund is an active verbal noun and declines like bellum:

• There is no nominative form and no plural forms

1st 2nd 3rd 3rd io 4th

para- mone- reg- capi- audi-

parandum monendum regendum capiendum audiendum

preparing warning ruling taking hearing

Use of the Gerund

• Expresses purpose in the accusative with adueni ad uobis succurrendum.

• Expresses purpose in the genitive with causa (by reason of, for the sake of)

ueni uobis succurrendi causa.• In the dative with words requiring a dative

non satis otii habebo carmina scribendo.• Expresses cause of means in the ablative

celeriter currendo domum ante noctem adueni.

Exercise 27.1 #1-3

1. Horatius artem dicendi Romae didicit.

2. deinde Athenas uenit philosophiae studendi causa.

3. diligenter studendo multa ibi didicit.

Exercise Translations

27.1.1: Horatius learned the art of speaking in Rome.27.1.2: Then he came to Athens for the purpose of studying philosophy.27.1.3: By studying diligently, he learned many things there.