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Chapters of Familia Romana that are hard, according to me

For background, most chapters are only trying to do one or two 'things'.

Chapter 8:
- all the declensions of quis/quī, hic, is, and ille dropped on you in a single chapter
- in some sense only one 'thing', but that's around 144 forms you've got to remember (4 pronouns x 3 genders x 2 numbers x 6 cases).
- tbh I just went past this and hoped I'd get used to them rather than having to memorize them

Chapter 12:
- the fourth declension
- datives for possession (e.g. "Marcō ūna soror est")
- comparatives
- third declension adjectives
- datives of commanding and obeying

Anyway I'm up to chapter 13 which is less bad, hopefully the density of hard chapters does not increase.

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Daniel Filan
Daniel Filan
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the thing that's especially bothersome is how third declension adjectives almost decline like third declension nouns but not quite.
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Daniel Filan
Daniel Filan
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Ch 14 is going pretty smoothly, just covering participles, and I think ch 15 does first and second person conjugations (which I've picked up elsewhere) so hopefully it's smooth sailing for a bit.
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Daniel Filan
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Ch 16 is weird - it introduces deponent verbs (verbs that are structured like passive verbs but have active meanings) which itself is not that hard, but it introduces enough of them and they're abstract enough that I find it kind of hard to remember them.
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Daniel Filan
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Indeed I find myself kind of stuck on ch16 - maybe partly because I took yesterday off, maybe related to the fact that I have felt devoid of mental energy from ~1:30 pm to 5 pm yesterday and today, or maybe because I don't have my 4.5 conjugations down pat. Plan is to review the previous chapters on verb conjugations and hope that helps (and also hope it helps me get the declensions more down pat)
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