Bartholomew the Englishman

On the Pelican

Latin Grammar: Demonstrative Pronouns

Pelicanus est avis quae in Levitico 11 [11.18] et Deuteronomio 14 [14.17] "porphyrio" nuncupatur. Et est avis Aegyptia habitans in solitudine iuxta Nilum. Inter volucres autem secundum legem immundas in Levitico numeratur. Sunt autem duo genera huius avis, unum in aquis inhabitans, et eius escae sunt pisces, aliud est in terra habitans, solitudinem diligens, cuius cibus sunt animalia venenosa, ut lacertae et huius modi. Omnia quae pelicanus comedit, primo pedem in aquam tingit, et intinctum quasi cum manu pede ori applicat et opponit. Solus pelicanus inter aves praedae praeter psitta cum pede utitur loco manus. 

Pronouns are words which take the place of nouns.  Whereas first and second person pronouns are fairly straight-forward (e.g.:  ego, nos, tu, vos) the third person pronouns are more varied.  They are demonstrative, pointing out he, she, or it, but more specifically:  "he over there" or "she right here," etc. 

In the passage above, we find several examples of third person demonstratives in the genitive case:  eius and huius.  Refresh your memory of the paradigms for these two forms by completing the charts below.

singular masculine feminine neuter plural masculine feminine neuter  
Nom: is ea id Nom: ei eae ea  
Gen: Gen:
Dat: Dat:
Acc: Acc:
Abl: Abl:
Nom: hic haec hoc Nom: hi hae haec  
Gen: Gen:
Dat: Dat:
Acc: Acc:
Abl: Abl:

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