Learn Latin — the complete grammar guide
Look it up — the tools
Sometimes you don’t need an explanation, you need a form. Four tools, free and without signing up — they show complete tables, and where no attested form exists they show a gap instead of guessing.
Declension tool
Nouns, adjectives and pronouns in every case — including the exceptions no rule explains.
Conjugation tool
Every form of a verb: 22 combinations of tense, mood and voice, at a glance.
Sentence analyzer
Type in any Latin sentence and get its elements colour-coded — with question, form and meaning.
Teaching Latin? The textbook comparison shows where your coursebook introduces which grammar — and how that maps onto our levels. It draws on seven sources covering five textbooks.
And when that tool disagrees with us, we are the ones who move. We had the perfect tense in our second year; five textbooks introduce it in the first. We changed our axis, not the evidence — and the perfect is now the most widely attested row in the whole matrix. The full story →
Latin has a reputation for being hard — and plenty of students spend years memorising tables without ever really understanding a single sentence. But the system underneath is completely logical. Once you understand the grammar, you can decode any Latin sentence: from a simple main clause to a complex ACI with a participle construction.
This page explains every important grammar topic for learning Latin in plain language — with examples from classical literature (Cicero, Caesar, Ovid), interactive exercises, and a look at the vocabulary trainer.
What you’ll find here: the fundamentals (sentence elements, declension, conjugation) — the key constructions (ACI, NCI, ablative absolute, participles) — specific goals (Latinum preparation, Latin at school) — and how to practise it all interactively with Lapicida.
