Latin nouns have case-endings that make them like little phrases rather than like simple individual words. After you have studied the full chart of the declension, practice perceiving the ending-ambiguities immediately, and instead of thinking of the case-names (e.g. dative, ablative, etc.), give the full meanings as conventionalized here. This chart shows you which endings are unambiguous (have only one case as a possibility), and which are doubly-ambiguous.

Note: These ways of indicating the meanings of the words are only conventions: determining meaning in a sentence is more complex than substituting simple formulae like these. The purpose of this exercise is to get you into the habit of noticing and distinguishing and registering different inflected forms automatically and effortlessly. To achieve the necessary speed and ease of understanding, you should practice these exercises until you recognize the full meanings without having to pause and recall the declension-table. Be aware that in the ablative case, if the noun refers to a person rather than a thing, then the noun is made the object of the preposition a or ab: a puerô does not mean "by means of the boy" but [something was done] "by the boy."

Give the full meaning of each word-form in the practice-exercise below, following the conventions given above.  N.B.: English-to-Latin exercises are found below the Latin-to-English ones.

1  bâsia
2  remediîs
3  bellum
4  perîculîs
5  bella
6  dônôrum
7  remediô
8  remediôrum
9  cônsilium
10  ôtiîs
11  cônsilia
12  perîculô
13  dônum
14  bellîs
15  ôtiôrum
16  dôna
17  ôtiô
18  exitium
19  exitiôrum
20  exitia
21  officium
22  officiô
23  ôtiî
24  officiôrum
25  officia
26  ôtium
27  officiî
28  exitiô
29  perîculî
30  perîculum
31  ôtia
32  exitiî
33  bâsiîs
34  dônô
35  cônsiliôrum
36  remediî
37  remedium
38  dônî
39  cônsiliîs
40  perîcula
41  bellôrum
42  cônsiliô
43  bâsiô
44  bâsiî
45  cônsiliî
46  remedia
47  bâsiôrum
48  perîculôrum
49  bellô
50  bellî
51  exitiîs
52  bâsium
53  dônîs
54  officiîs

  1  kiss (subject)
  2   to / for the destruction
  3   to / for the duties
  4   kisses (d. object)
  5   to / for the kiss
  6   to / for the gift
  7   war (subject)
  8   of the remedies
  9   to / for the duty
  10   to / for the leisures
  11   wars (d. object)
  12   of the destruction
  13   remedy (d. object)
  14   of the kiss
  15   of the kisses
  16   plan (subject)
  17   to / for the leisure
  18   to / for the dangers
  19   of the dangers
  20   plans (d. object)
  21   to / for the war
  22   danger (d. object)
  23   gift (subject)
  24   of the plans
  25   to / for the danger
  26   to / for the remedies
  27   of the danger
  28   gifts (d. object)
  29   leisure (d. object)
  30   destruction (subject)
  31   to / for the remedy
  32   by the kiss
  33   of the duty
  34   destructions (d. object)
  35   duty (subject)
  36   duty (d. object)
  37   to / for the kisses
  38   by the war
  39   leisures (subject)
  40   by the plans
  41   of the leisure
  42   duties (d. object)
  43   leisure (subject)
  44   to / for the wars
  45   by the plan
  46   duties (subject)
  47   by the wars
  48   destruction (d. object)
  49   dangers (subject)
  50   by the gifts
  51   danger (subject)
  52   leisures (d. object)
  53   to / for the plans
  54   by the gift
  55   destructions (subject)
  56   of the wars
  57   by the kisses
  58   gift (d. object)
  59   of the gift
  60   by the remedies
  61   remedies (subject)
  62   by the destructions
  63   to / for the plan
  64   remedy (subject)
  65   to / for the gifts
  66   by the destruction
  67   gifts (subject)
  68   of the gifts
  69   by the remedy
  70   dangers (d. object)
  71   of the plan
  72   plan (d. object)
  73   by the dangers
  74   kiss (d. object)
  75   by the duties
  76   kisses (subject)
  77   to / for the destructions
  78   by the duty
  79   plans (subject)
  80   by the danger
  81   remedies (d. object)
  82   of the war
  83   of the remedy
  84   war (d. object)
  85   by the leisures
  86   wars (subject)
  87   by the leisure
  88   of the duties
  89   of the destructions
  90   of the leisures