How to use demonstrative pronouns in Latin

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Latin

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Latin? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Latin lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Latin demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Latin demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' has different forms in Latin depending on whether the word to which it belongs is masculine, feminine or neuter. The demonstrative pronoun for masculine words is 'hic'. For feminine words, it is 'haec' and for neuter words it is 'hoc'.

Examples

haec sella
this chair
haec femina
this woman
hic vir
this man
hic puer
this boy
hic liber
this book
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Step 6 : Latin demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns liber, sella and porta (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Latin demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Latin demonstrative pronouns with the nouns liber, sella and porta and the plural nouns libri, sellae and portae you can move on to Step 7 (Latin adjectives).

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