Specific Verbs and Adjectives taking the Genitive Case

Certain words in Latin take the genitive case, instead of the accusative. The following table shows all of these contained in the OCR GCSE. The first column shows the Latin word and it's parts, and the second shows the English, including the literal meaning in brackets.

Latin English
obliviscor
oblivisci
oblitus sum
I forget (to do something)
plus
pluris
more (of something)

This page was written by Ben Bloor.

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