the relative pronoun

Starts a relative clause which is a subordinate clause. (Clauses must have a subject and verb)

This subordinate clause tells more information about a noun/pronoun: it’s antecedent

Relative pronouns relate groups of words to nouns or other pronouns

who, whom, which, that, whose

quīcuiuscuiquemquō

quīquōrumquibusquōsquibus

quaecuiuscuiquamquā quaequārumquibusquāsquibus

quodcuiuscuiquodquō quaequōrumquibusquaequibus

Nom.Nom.Gen.Gen.Dat.Dat.Acc.Acc.Abl.Abl.PL.Nom.Nom.Gen.Gen.Dat.Dat.Acc.Acc.Abl.Abl.

SG. M. F. N.

Case Number Gender, Whence do you get them?

Antecedent provides Gender Number

Case come from relative clause Latin relative clauses

Begin with the relative pronoun End with the finite verb

Rēgīnam [quae Britanniam regit] vīdī.

Vīdī rēgīnam [quae Britanniam regit]. Puer [cuius librum habeō] est amīcus

noster. Virum cui librum dedī vīdistī. Oppidum quod vīdit erat parvum. Lūdī ex quibus vēnimus erant magnī.

Inīmīcī erant virī quibuscum in aquā pugnābātis.

Puellam ā quā in lūdō interficiēbar amō. Tristis!

Portās ad quās nautae ā tē ductī sunt superāre debeō

Agricola [quī magnum agrum habet] pecumiam multam habebit.

Romanōs quī Graecōs interfaciebant studēmus.

Magister quō linguam Latinam noscitis insanus est.

Liber cui referis horribilis est.Ager in quō cras stabō magnus est.

The friendly girl whom I saw in the woods is approaching.

The words which were heard by the Romans were bad.

Why do you not endure the fortune that nature gave you?

The man to whom I entrusted the money was my true enemy.