If you are an English speaker, you already know some Latin; let me show you! This time we are going to take a look at words that have their roots in Latin verbs! As with the nouns and adjectives, some English words come from different forms on the following verbs, but to make my life easier and to make the list more manageable for you, I have only included the present active form. English Latin Accident accidens - a chance occurrence Ambulance ambulo - to walk Audio audio -

Latin is known for its difficult grammar and for its verb conjugations, but what exactly is a conjugation? Here's a list of useful grammatical terms. If you want to start learning Latin, you may find it useful to learn these or at least write them down. This isn't a complete list, and I'll be adding more to it as I come across more terms in my Latin learning. Adjective - An adjective is a word that describes a noun. "big" "quick" Comparative - The form an adjective takes whe