Grammar: Correlatives

Latin students often have a really hard time with the pronouns, the adjectival pronouns (or pronominal adjectives!), and the corresponding adverbs of quantity, quality and time. Yet things are really a lot simpler than they might seem! These words are "correlatives" in Latin, which means that they are part of a general pattern or series. Instead of trying to memorize these words separately, it can help to familiarize yourself with the general system instead. Here is a chart that shows some of these Latin correlatives. Notice how the Latin follows a clear pattern, while the English phrases are sometimes very different from each other: