II. 1. The men of all Germany are preparing for war. 2. Some towns are great and others are small. 3. One boy likes chickens, another horses. 4. Already the booty of one town is in our fort. 5. Our whole village is suffering for (i.e. weak because of) lack of food. 6. The people are already hastening to the other town. 7. Among the Romans (there) is no lack of grain.
[ LESSON XVII]
THE DEMONSTRATIVE IS, EA, ID
[112.] A demonstrative is a word that points out an object definitely, as this, that, these, those. Sometimes these words are pronouns, as, Do you hear these? and sometimes adjectives, as, Do you hear these men? In the former case they are called demonstrative pronouns, in the latter demonstrative adjectives.
[113.] Demonstratives are similarly used in Latin both as pronouns and as adjectives. The one used most is
is, masculine; ea, feminine; id, neuter
| Singular |
this that | Plural |
these those |
[114.] Is is declined as follows. Compare its declension with that of alius, [§ 109].
| Basee- | ||||||
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MASC. | FEM. | NEUT. | MASC. | FEM. | NEUT. | |
| Nom. | is | ea | id | eī (or iī) | eae | ea |
| Gen. | eius | eius | eius | eōrum | eārum | eōrum |
| Dat. | eī | eī | eī | eīs (or iīs) | eīs (or iīs) | eīs (or iīs) |
| Acc. | eum | eam | id | eōs | eās | ea |
| Abl. | eō | eā | eō | eīs (or iīs) | eīs (or iīs) | eīs (or iīs) |
Note that the base e- changes to i- in a few cases. The genitive singular eius is pronounced eh´yus. In the plural the forms with two i’s are preferred and the two i’s are pronounced as one. Hence, pronounce iī as ī and iīs as īs.