This is a very concise extract of Latin noun declensions and verb conjugations. These are usually the most challenging parts of learning the basics of Latin grammar for a beginner. Once the noun declensions and verb conjugations are learned, the only thing that remains is to learn the vocabulary and read as much as possible.

These paradigms are usually memorized by heart which takes a lot of time and effort. One way to make rote learning easier is to have a system with some minimal basics from which a whole set of material is extractable. This works because the human mind learns procedure better than raw data. With this in mind, I have designed the system below in order to minimize raw data to memorize and introduce procedures to derive all the declension and conjugation paradigms from the raw data.

I have used the famous book Wheelock's Latin to compile the tables below. After learning the paradigms, one can start by going through Wheelock's Latin, or start reading the awesome Latin reading series Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Orberg (also look here). Dawling's Wheel is also a great place to practice the paradigms. For practicing the paradigms on memrise, you can use this course, and for learning the vocabulary from Wheelock's Latin, I recommend this course.

Once the system below is learned, in time, the paradigms will be decoupled from the system by practicing the language and you will have direct access to the paradigms in your mind as if you have memorized them by heart. However, while you are practicing the language, if you find yourself having forgotten a paradigm, you can use the system to derive it in your mind or you can simply refer to this page.

Latin nouns are usually given in the nominative singular form accompanied by the genitive singular ending in dictionary entries. You can decide the declension paradigm by looking at the genitive singular ending.

The vocative singular of nouns like amicus and of masculine adjectives like magnus ends in -e. The vocative singular of filius and of names ending in -ius ends in a single -i (fili, vergili ); the vocative singular of the masculine adjective meus is mi ; the vocative singular of masculine adjectives ending in -ius ends in -ie (egregius, egregie ). Otherwise the vocative has the same form as the nominative in all declensions.

The table below shows how to derive declensions from each other.

Simple tenses are conjugated by taking the root of the verb (by dropping the ending off of the 2nd participle form of the verb with some slight modifications explained below), adding a flag (explained below), and adding the verb endings.

For getting the root of a verb:

The table below, shows the verb endings of the simple tenses including the exceptions and where those exceptions occur.

The table below shows the flag letters. This is a set of letters (or a single letter) that should be added between the root of the verb and the verb ending.

Perfect tenses in the active form are constructed thus: