adamslim;219858 Wrote: > Accusative singular is deffo forum, certain there > I am also certain that genitive singular is not fore, but not sure > whether it's fori (preferred guess) or foro (I think that's the dative)
forum is second declension, goes like "bellum". In the following sentence: michaelwagner;219858 Wrote: > In Slim's time, the guy who set the prices also read these forae. forums is the object of "read" so it would indeed be plural accusative: "fora". But slimkid brings up an interesting one: slimkid;219858 Wrote: > " I can't live for a day without visiting this 'forum'" Here you would use the singular locative case, because visiting the forum is like "going to" the forum. That would be "fori" (pronounced "for-ee"). John Cleese explains: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=9243 All the endings for forum are here under "Neuter nouns ending in -um": http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~econrad/lang/ln2.html -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
