RLS102 Latin Grammar II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jana Mikulová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Weissar (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jana Mikulová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( RLS101 Latin Grammar I || LJ101 Latin Grammar I ) && ! LJ102 Latin Grammar II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Latin Grammar II follows the course Latin Grammar I and is dedicated to acquiring another part of Latin grammar, particularly morphology and basic syntactic structures.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- reproduce grammatical rules and paradigms studied within the course (see syllabus of the course);
- use basic Latin grammatical terminology associated with the grammar studied within the course;
- apply grammatical rules in translating sentences into Latin and into Czech;
- describe the grammatical structure of a clause and distinguish morphological and syntactic devices used in the sentence;
- use synonymous expressive means to express selected grammatical phenomena;
- learn by heart selected Latin vocabulary (with emphasis on verbs).
Syllabus
  • 1st and 2nd week: perfect stem, perfect active indicative. Perfect passive participle, perfect passive indicative.
  • 3rd week: 4th and 5th declension, demonstrative pronouns.
  • 4th week: interrogative and relative pronouns, relative clauses; negative pronouns; pronominal adjectives.
  • 5th and 6th week: comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
  • 7th week: present subjunctive (1st-4th conjugation and esse). Imperfect subjunctive (1st-4th conjugation and esse).
  • 8th and 9th week: use of the present and imperfect subjunctive in selected types of subordinate clauses (ut / ne clauses, cum historicum, conditional clauses).
  • 10th and 11th week: participium coniunctum, ablative absolute.
  • 12th week: Plusquamperfect and future perfect indicative and its use in subordinate clauses.
  • 13th and 14th week: perfect active infinitive, perfect passive infinitive, future active infinitive, future passive infinitive. Use of infinitives in the accusative with infinitive construction.
  • Reading easy Latin texts, such as works by Eutropius, Hyginus mythographus, Nepos (selection of authors and/or passages may vary according to students' preliminary knowledge and abilities).
Literature
    required literature
  • MIKULOVÁ, Jana. Základní kurz latiny I (Basic Course of Latin I). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 402 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7039-4. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • PANHUIS, Dirk. Gramatika latiny. Translated by Lucie Pultrová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2014, 281 s. ISBN 9788020023353. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, František. Základní latinská mluvnice. 2. vyd., 1. vyd. v H & H. Praha: H & H, 1992, 297 s. ISBN 80-85467-91-7. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, František, Josef SEDLÁČEK and Josef M. PRAŽÁK. Latinsko-český slovník : L - Z. 19. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980, 684 s. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, František, Josef SEDLÁČEK and Josef M. PRAŽÁK. Latinsko-český slovník : A - K. 19. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980, VIII, 743. info
    recommended literature
  • PECH, Jiří. Latina pro gymnázia. Vyd. 1. Praha: Leda, 1994, 406 s. ISBN 80-901664-6-6. info
  • PECH, Jiří. Latina pro gymnázia. Vyd. 1. Praha: Leda, 1996, 471 s. ISBN 808592711X. info
    not specified
  • Latinsko-český slovník. Edited by Josef Miroslav Pražák - František Novotný - Josef Sedláček. 20. vyd. Praha: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 1999, 1425 s. ISBN 80-85917-51-3. info
  • Oxford English dictionary (Variant.) : The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles. Vol. 1, A-M : The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles. Vol. 2, N-Z. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, practice, homework, reading of simple Latin texts, translation.
Assessment methods
The credit is awarded for passing the control written tests. Five such tests are written during the course. Attendance to tests is obligatory. Class attendance is obligatory, students can be absent five times without providing an excuse.
Requirements for obtaining the credit (students have to fulfill all of them):
- Reach average success rate of at least 75% in all the tests;
- Reach success rate of at least 75% in the last test (it contains also a translation of a short text into Czech);

If students fail the tests, they have to pass a final comprehensive test (success rate of 75%).
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
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