Lesson video

We're continuing our unit on irregular verbs.

We've done, sum.

It was easy, wasn't it? And now we're going to look at two more irregular verbs.

We're going to do, volo and nolo What are those verbs going to be about? Let's find out! Irregular verbs, volo and nolo.

Our learning objectives of discenda are as follows.

Can I recognise and translate all forms of the irregular verbs, volo and nolo? Can I translate both of those irregular verbs in full sentences and take into account the imperfect tense? In order to get the most or in order to do this lesson at all, you're going to need those things.

Press pause to get them.

If you already do it with a pencil, that's great.

And some paper, let's get on with it.

What are these irregular verbs all about? Let's have a look.

This is a 2,000 year old version of me.

I don't have a beard.

And here is That student is saying, sum discipulus laborare volo.

Volo.

Volo.

Okay, we should know, sum, sum, sum is, yeah, I am.

So I am a student and volo, now you've just read it on the learning objectives, haven't you, all right? There's no bonus points for knowing that volo means I want, that's what I'll give you, I'll give you that one.

Now let's make this make sense.

is I work.

We've got this -re ending which you may have encountered before.

If you haven't, don't worry.

We got, volo laborare.

I want, make this make sense.

I want work.

I want work.

It doesn't mean, I want work.

That would be different.

It means I want, tell me.

Yeah, I want to work.

Laborare to work.

Laborare.

Well okay, laborare, it's there again.

Volumus.

Let's do one more, volumus.

Now, let's do, volumus, first.

Most on the end.

It's going to be to do with wanting and it's our old friend, -mus It's going to be not, I want, but, we want.

Now, laborare,we just did is, to work.

So here we have another student another He joins the conversation and both of those students want to work.

We want to work.

But, oh dear, what's going to happen now? Oh no, this student turns up and instead of volo, volo laborare we've got, nolo laborare.

So it's not going to be, I want to work, but it will be tell me, it will be.

Good, yeah.

I don't want to work, okay.

And then this is what tends to happen sometimes in school.

Now look, look, these two good students have joined in.

And we've got laborare nolumus.

Let's do, nolumus.

You can do that, go on then.

Instead of, volumus, over here was we something, something Was laborare nolumus Don't you think? Good, so this is going to be, we not, we want, but nolo, it will be we don't want to work.

And then last for all, this teacher says poenam vultis? So do you want punishment? And then they all respond, tacere vis.

Now this is O-S, so do you, singular.

So here he was speaking to more than one.

So he used plural and here they're speaking to him.

So do you, singular, want tacere, to shut up? All right, one more time.

Do you want punishment? Do you want to be punished in school for behaving like that? Sir, do you want to shut up? So right.

Don't ever say things like that to a teacher.

What just happened? So this verb, volo.

Here is all the parts or some of the parts of volo that we've just seen.

Meaning, I want, divided into six.

Before we move on, how are you going to remember that volo means, I want? Well, derivations are as follows English words like volition, benevolent and volunteer.

Let's start with this easiest one here.

If you volunteer to do something it means you want to do it.

If you do something of your own volition that means you want to do it.

And someone who has benevolent is someone who wants or wishes, wants well wants what's good for everyone.

All right, so that's when you know and you know volo now.

So that means you can figure that one out.

Okay.

It's divided into six parts according to exactly the same English pronouns as we're used to.

I, you, he or she, we, you plural, they.

And I'm going to read out volo to you now.

Are you ready? Volo, vis, vult volumus, vultis, volunt.

So, Let's have a quick look and we'll see that interestingly like, sum there are two stems going on and you've got one thing happening for the, I, we, and they form which is this -vol stem.

Then you've got another thing happening for the you and singular plurals and he or she.

Which is this -vul stem, all right.

And that's important.

And O and a U, that difference, it's important, all right.

And last of all, you've got this really quite irregular one which is, vis.

You'd think it will be like or something.

But it's just, vis.

Three letters and it means, you want.

Now what students usually do when they see, volo 'cause it's not as irregular as, sum.

What students usually do is they say, right look, Mr. Ferber, it's got V and an L on the front and look, what is regular about volo? What is regular is O-S-T, -mus, -tis, -unt.

So what students do, is they say, look I'll just look for a V and an L.

I'm not going to learn it, Mr. Ferber.

I'll look for a V and an L.

And then I'll just look at the O-S-T it's just there on the end.

I'll wing it on the day, it'll be fine.

And what happens then is, they then see, vis a few months later and they have no idea what they're looking at, all right.

And also, the other thing is, bear in mind is that I respect you.

And I want to teach you to the top.

Everyone deserves to know volo completely 100% front and back, all right.

So, we're going to learn this verb and it's going to be exactly the same format as usual.

I am going to chant it, just on my own.

Then we're going to do two, where we do it together.

And then last of all, by that time, you will have learnt it and I'll listen to you run it through.

When it's your turn, you can either look at the screen if you want to or you can look away from the screen out the window or the ceiling or something, anywhere.

You don't just have to look at the screen all the time for goodness sake.

Right, okay.

The one that I'm going to do, I start with my finger in the air and I go, volo, vis, vult, volumus, vultis, volunt.

Your turn, with me, volo, good, vis, vult, yeah.

Volumus, vultis, volunt.

One more time with me.

Volo, vis, vult, let's speed up a bit volumus, vultis, volunt.

On your own.

Vultis, volunt.

Very nice.

One last bit before we have a look at the next bit.

And that is, this word here, visne.

Which means, now "ne" again, this is another thing where students see this and they go, I've never seen that before ne on the end of the first word in Latin turns it's like the equivalent of a question mark for Latin.

And so this is, you want, so making that a question you going to get, do you want? Right so, visne, do you want? Visne.

Right.

Now for that nolo, remember the meaning, I don't want it's not just a case of adding.

Normally with the verb, like if I was walking I don't walk You just put a, non on.

But there are three instances in volo where you don't put the non on, instead it becomes nolo.

Or this nolo form.

And that's really easy.

And that is these vol, V-O-L.

These three here, instead of being non something you get rid of the V and you make it nol.

Does that make sense? So volo becomes nolo.

Volumus becomes nolumus and volunt becomes nolunt.

And all the rest of these ones here you don't have to worry about anything else, right.

You just put that non on the front in order to make, am I going to fit that in? Yeah, I can.

In order to make them negative.

And then you end up with, you're ready? So nolo, nolumus, nolunt.

All the rest is, non vis, non vult, and non vultis.

And you end up with something that looks a little something like that, right.

Okay.

And that's for, not nolo anymore, but for nolo.

So not volo anymore, but nolo.

Which is, I do not want, over there.

All right.

So, now the great thing, we're going to chant this one a few times as well.

And my favourite thing about nolo is that it's in a different musicians already.

It's in a different time signature than nolo.

And volo, and nolo is in compound time.

It goes on You're ready? It goes like this nolo, non vis, non vult nolumus, non vultis, nolunt.

One more time, nolo, non vis, non vult nolumus, non vultis, nolunt.

Join in with me, here we go, nolo, non vis, non vult nolumus, non vultis, nolunt.

On your own.

Very nice, okay, right.

So let's see how much of that actually went in.

Volo, I want.

Nolo, I don't want.

What does, vult, mean? In three.

So, volo, with me, volo, vis, vult, isn't it? What does nolo mean? Does nolo mean, I want? Does nolo mean, I want? Of course it doesn't, what's nolo mean? nolo means I, yes thank you, I do not want.

Right, what's vis mean.

And that one that the students always forget.

There's an S on the end, vis.

Good, volo, vis, there you go.

Okay, non vultis.

Is that going to mean, I want something? Non vultis.

What's that mean? Okay, run it through with me nolo, non vis, non vult nolumus, non vultis, there it is, nolunt.

Okay, so it's you, plural, do not want.

What's the difference between vult and vultis? They look quite similar.

What's the difference? So O-S-T on the end, as in -mus, -tis So that's going to be, she wants, and then this one vultis is you plural, want.

What's the difference between vis and non vis.

come on, it's a piece of cake, but just watch singular plural, vis and non vis.

Good, so we know that vis is, you want.

So volo, vis, so that's that one.

And then this is just the negative, isn't it? So you do not want, piece of cake.

What's the difference between, nolumus and volumus? Which one's positive, which one's negative? Maybe there's no negativity going on, what is it? So nolumus, we know we're going to be we doing something, down in the end.

And nolumus is going to be, we don't want.

Therefore volumus is, we want.

Vis means, what.

It's a big, strong voice.

This is the one that students always forget.

It means, good, singular or plural? One more time.

Singular you, singular want.

What's the opposite of vis? Are you going to have to make it non, what do you put on this? Good, it's just going to be, non vis, lovely.

What is the opposite of, nolunt? Make that positive, make that to do with wanting.

Good, all we're doing is taking that N and we're replacing it with a V and we get, tell me, yeah, volunt.

What's the opposite of vult? Is it It's not What do you think it is? It's going to be, yep, let's just put a non on for that one.

If it's then you change the V to an N to make it negative.

If it's then you put a non on the front to make he, or she does not want.

And what does visne mean? It means what, what, what, three words, visne.

Do you want, great.

Okay, let's have a little look at some practise sentences.

So our first little batch are going to be short sentences with volo and an infinitive in.

The infinitive is that -re form that we did, all right where we had laborare, to work.

When I say, -re, you say to, -re, -re, to, all right.

Here, now I'm going to do the first one myself.

'Cause that's how we do things.

I don't want any help, well done, good.

Here we go, effugere volo.

The way I do things is I, first of all, I get my sort of ingredients by just looking at the beginnings of words.

Let's have a look, so effugere.

is a bit escape.

And volo has to do with, wanting.

Okay, that's step one done.

Then I look at my form of volo and I just that becomes volo, there just becomes my world.

It's the only thing I care about in the world.

Volo, and I think, is it do or don't and who's doing it? So volo was, there's no nol or non there so it's going to be want and not, not want.

And the person doing it is volo.

Volo, vis, vult, I, so we know it's, I want.

Tick, then I find my infinitive and I add a, to.

When I say -re, you say, to.

Okay, so here, I've got effugere, which means I need to put to, over here.

It's a bit clumsy, I apologise.

And then I translate it in my form.

Volo form of volo, plus infinitive.

To escape, I want, how we going to make that make sense? Come on it's easy.

It's going to be, I want to escape.

Cool.

Okay, we're going to do another one now.

This time, you're going to help me out a little bit.

Oh here we have, respondere nolunt.

Respondere nolunt.

All right so, do I start off by translating, nolunt? No, I look at my verb beginnings.

or something like that.

What's have to do with.

It looks like a bit of what it is.

Let's go for reply.

All right, and nolunt.

So long as we know it has to do with wanting.

That's fine, I know you're going to think, put the nolunt.

Let's just put want in for now so we can triple check things, done.

Now I go to my form of volo or nolo and I think, is it do or don't and who's doing it? So my first thing is, nolunt.

Is it going to be volunt or nolunt? Nolunt, isn't it? It's that one.

So I need to put a not, or do not.

Let's hope this fits.

And then I have a look at, -unt on the end.

And let's run through.

Now, there's two ways of doing this.

Either you look at -unt, and you just think oh well O-S-T was just -unt, I know who's doing that.

Or you can run through the whole of nolo in your head if you want to.

And I quite like the nolo on 'cause It's got that rhythm, isn't it? Ready? After one, two, nolo here we go.

And nolo, non vis, non vult nolumus, non vultis, nolunt.

It's that one, nolunt.

Who's doing that? It's going to be, they, all right.

So we've got that bit done, that bit done the middle of it, done.

Step two is done.

I find my infinitive.

When I say, something, you say, to.

Oh, when I say, something, -re, to.

So I need to find my -re word, which is, respondere.

What word do I add in front of, reply? If that's got -re there, tell me it's going to be.

Yep, to.

And now tell your screen after three, make that make sense.

That sentence after three, two, one, tell me.

Lovely, so it's going to be, they do not want to reply.

I would write that out, but I don't want to.

I mean, that's just, my handwriting is abysmal on this.

Right.

Right, get rid of that You're ready? Now, visne consumere has been mistranslated.

I'm just going to give you five seconds.

What's wrong there? The clue, what's wrong with this translation? Go.

And stop.

We should see that visne doesn't just mean, you want but means, do you want? You always get this clue, obviously, 'cause you're going to get a question mark there as well.

So, this translation should be, do you want to eat? And let's have a look.

So I think it's time for you to go on with it on your own.

That's all you need from me for now.

Here are five examples.

There's visne.

Pause the video here, I think 10 minutes.

Get translating, off you go.

Okay, now switching to a different coloured pen let's see how we did.

Let's have a look.

So I'll give you 10 seconds to look through your answers or press pause too.

I'll mark your answers and I'll talk you through some extra things.

Four, very briefly four numbers.

One and three, if you wrote, he or it instead of, she that's obviously completely fine.

If you wrote say, he wants to respond, that's fine too.

That's a synonym for reply, I would prefer reply but if you say respond, that's fine too.

And down here, do you, now if you didn't put the singular in please do put it in, but you still obviously got it right.

And if you wrote, remain, instead of, stay, that's fine too.

Let's have a look at volo and nolo in the imperfect tense.

When I say, ba, you say, Ba.

Ba.

Was or were, volebam therefore means, I good, I was wanting.

Now I'm going to bring myself in on this one because it's pretty complex.

Now I was wanting, sounds pretty clunky and weird in English and for that reason, and that reason alone I am allowing you with volo and nolo to translate the imperfect tense in that way as well.

You can also translate, I know, I know I know too, yeah, right.

Volebam, I will also allow you, in fact, encourage you to translate as, I wanted.

Right, but don't think for a second that if you see any other verb with a, -ba in that you can translate that with an -ed on the end, right.

V-U-S-S-E, -ed, -ed, -ed, -ed, -ed.

That's the rule for -ed, right? And does not mean, I do now.

It doesn't mean, I walked now because well volebam means I wanted.

All right, but for volebam, I can mean, I wanted.

And nolebam, can mean, I didn't want.

What's the difference between nolbas and non vis? Nolebas, -as on the end, let's have a look.

Good, so when I say -ba, you say, was or were.

So this one can be either, you did not want or you were not wanting.

We can see how that sounds a bit weird.

So you might want to go for that one.

And this is present tense here, you do not want.

You want on your own, would just be, vis.

Right.

This is now, in the previous exercise, we just saw volo plus infinitive.

Which was sort just of short, two or three word sentences.

They didn't have nouns in they were all in the present tense.

Now we've got some nouns happening and also you need to keep your eye on that tense there okay, does that make sense? When you do your volo bit, when did it happen? As well as, if it's, is it positive or negative? and who's doing it? And then the next thing is you need to pay attention to your word order down here.

form of volo or nolo, infinitive, accusative.

Let's have a look, I'm going to do the first one.

Don't want any help, pater is father.

I'm going to leave a nice gap before manere, which is, stay.

And then volebat is to do with wanting.

That's my step one, I just do the first bits the first halves, so like don't think about endings yet.

But when I do think about endings, I go to my forward volo which is volebat.

That's not going to be nolo, so that is positive.

That means you are doing the wanting.

Who's doing it? T, -bam, -brass, -bats.

I use she, for the father, the he.

He, and then when I say, -ba, so that's the person.

When I say -ba, you say, was or were.

But I'm allowing you to do what here? Yep, that's right, but I am allowed to as I use, to write tense of volebat as one tense then I substitute that.

Next, I look at all the other word endings in this sentence.

Manere, over here.

When I say, -re, you say, to.

So what am I going to add here? Well, I'm going to add, to stay.

Let's put some in labelling here.

This is my form of volo, this is my verb.

This is my infinitive and pater now pater has not been changed.

It's not So I know that, because it's exactly the same as the form that I will have learned as vocab or been taught.

I know it's a nominative singular.

Okay, so that's that one.

And then now I look at my little thing.

It's going to go nominative volo, infinitive accusative.

If we haven't gotten accusative here so don't need that one.

It's going to be nom volo inf.

And you might be tempted to think, father to stay he wanted.

He wanted the father to stay, ah, in the bag.

No, no, no, no, no, look who you're enabling here, labelling.

It's going to go nom volo inf.

It'll go that word, that word, that word.

The father, he wanted to stay.

Okay, make that make sense.

What word don't we need there? That's right, I'm bringing you in here which I'm technically not meant to be doing because I'm meant to be doing it all on my own.

Anyway, we don't need, he.

He, is there to help us if we don't have a noun that's in a normative.

But if we do have a noun that's a normative we don't need a, he or a she or a they, all right.

So it's going to be, the father wanted or was wanting.

Maybe you want to translate them in a clunky way as well.

Some students do like doing that, as was wanting all the time, that's absolutely fine by me.

Don't you worry about that.

Wanted to stay, full stop on the end.

What now? Look at, pater manere, pater manere volebat.

The father wants to stay.

This student has translated or some student has translated this sentence, patrem manere volebat as the father It's not that, because that was the father wanted to stay.

What's wrong with this translation? I'm going to give you another little clue which is, that sometimes these two can swap around.

It can go normative, follow volo, accusative, infinitive.

That's a clue, 10 seconds.

What do we think? Go.

Two one zero, okay, let's have a look.

First thing we're going to do is label what we've got here.

We know that's, he wanted.

We know that's, to stay.

But what's changed with patrem? What letter do singular accusatives end with -em? So we know it's a singular accusative ACC.

That then changes our word order.

So we know that the word is going to go near the end of the sentence and not at the beginning.

So that's our problem here.

We know that this shouldn't be there.

And in fact, it doesn't doing the wanting now.

That person is not doing the wanting 'cause they're accusative, they're receiving the verb.

Who's doing the wanting? Bam, -bas, -bat.

I, you, let's have a, she.

So, she wants it.

Now what we need to do is fit this accusative in.

It can either go in front of the infinitive or after the infinitive.

She wanted to stay, the father.

Or, what's it going to be? She wanted, yeah.

Good, lovely.

She wanted the father to stay.

Look at that sentence there.

This sentence means she wanted the father to stay.

She wanted the father to stay.

Okay, now what do we think therefore this sentence means? Getting rid of me, off you go.

Okay now, this one's really interesting because if I do say so myself because he wanted, we know the father's not doing anything 'cause of that accusative on the front.

He wanted the father to listen, you probably think.

But it can mean one more thing.

What else could it mean? Tell me.

Good, it can also be, he wanted to hear the father.

Okay, because, either, now this is tough.

Patrem, the accusative can either be receiving the wanting or it can be receiving the listening.

When in doubt, make it make sense so long as you don't have any accusative which are doing any verbs, because that is illegal.

That's actually illegal.

Okay.

Right.

Here we've got, patrem salutare vult.

And it's been translated as, he wanted to greet the father.

It's just a quick one here.

The accused has been correctly translated but that's still wrong, why? Five seconds.

One and good.

We should have spotted that.

Is this word translated correctly? No, because check our tense is vult is present tense.

Volo, vis, vult.

So this greeted, gone, should be greets.

He wants to greet the father.

He wanted, would be, volebat.

Okay.

And I believe that's it for now.

Visne, what does visne mean? Does it mean, you want? Like in a question? Good.

Do you want, and I believe that's it for me.

You're going to see six sentences which are going to have nouns in and different tenses of volo.

Just follow the steps that we've been doing so far and you'll be absolutely fine.

I can't wait to see how you're going to do pressing pause to get on with that into and off you go.

Okay now, do not forget that challenge.

Let's have a look at it.

Press pause to complete the challenge now.

Okay, let's see how we did.

Switch to a different colour pen for me and press pause to mark your answers.

I will talk you through any issues after about five seconds just press pause here, have a look.

Now, for all of these instances where you've got the imperfect if you've translated them as, was wanting actually I'd like you to give yourself two ticks because that's great, that's really cool.

Actually I'm going to bring myself in because that's precisely what I want, students who when I say, -ba, you say, was or were, they commit.

All right.

But if you did translate them as simple perfects even though they are imperfect, then that's absolutely fine.

Let's have a look.

If you translated, manere, as remain, that's fine by me.

Any use, make sure you tell me singular or plural.

You're still right.

If you didn't put singular or plural make sure you write them in now.

And the son didn't want his father to ask, is also correct.

Good tenses here.

And do you want to drink my water? Singular.

Lovely.

These are your answers for the challenge.

Here you had to change the tense.

So press pause here to correct these.

And all that's left is for us excuse me.

All that's left is for us to say, valete, to one another.

But don't think you're going to say valete to me without a final recitation of, volo and nolo.

Let's go, volo, vis, vult, volumus, vultis, volunt.

One more time, volo, vis, vult, good volumus, vultis, volunt.

That's the rhythm for, nolo.

One, two, nolo, let's go.

And, nolo, non vis, non vult nolumus, non vultis, nolunt.

Vale, okay, see you next time, well done.