Very true - simple patterns woven into a complex system.
For anyone interested, there is a great online resource for inputting any Latin word form and getting an instant output telling you its noun, verb, or other form, along with its base form and its English definition: http://archives.nd.edu/words.html (William Whittaker's Words program). You can also input an English word and instantly get its Latin equivalents.
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Although most of the verb-forms follow relatively simple patterns. Except, of course, for the irregular ones, which are totally off.
Then you get into the various constructions of verbs + other or nouns + other, and it gets even more complicated
Very true - simple patterns woven into a complex system.
For anyone interested, there is a great online resource for inputting any Latin word form and getting an instant output telling you its noun, verb, or other form, along with its base form and its English definition: http://archives.nd.edu/words.html (William Whittaker's Words program). You can also input an English word and instantly get its Latin equivalents.