LC1: Review Lesson 1-Noun Declensions

[Minor Mom]

When the nouns end in "ia" (gloria, Gallia, Italia, memoria, patria, victoria), how do the plural Dative and Ablative forms appear? We are getting two i's together and that can't be right. I found a website that showed me the declension of "filia" and it used "filiabus" for the Dative and Ablative forms.

I've searched through the book and may be overlooking this instruction. Could you provide some clarification for me on this point.

Thank you in advance for your time.

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In review lesson 1 and in lesson 6, we are encouraged to decline all the nouns learned thus far. When I started to decline Italia, I wondered about the double "i" I get on the plural dative and ablative cases. Is this correct?

[U]Singular[/U]
Italia
Italiae
Italiae
Italiam
Italia

[U]Plural[/U]
Italiae
Italiarum
Italiis
Italias
Italiis

The same thing occurs when you decline filia, gloria, Gallia, and memoria. Please tell if I am doing this correctly. I don't want to teach my kids wrong.

Susanna

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Did these questions ever get answered?? I have the same question!

[tanya]

The post above is correct. I actually declined these nouns for a customer, but they run together when I put the post up. I hope you can understand them.

aqua fortuna gloria Gallia Italia lingua
aquae fortunae gloriae Galliae Italiae linguae
aquae fortunae gloriae Galliae Italiae linguae
aquam fortunam gloriam Galliam Italiam linguam
aqua fortuna gloria Gallia Italia lingua
aquae fortunae gloriae Galliae Italiae linguae
aquarum fortunarum gloriarum Galliarum Italiarum linguarum
aquis fortunis gloriis Galliis Italiis linguis
aquas fortunas glorias Gallias Italias linguas
aquis fortunis gloriis Galliis Italiis linguis

You are right about the extra i, but you'll never go wrong if you find the stem (by dropping the genitive singular ending) and write that stem 10 times, then add the endings.

Tanya