Latin: Complete Paradigm Memorization
When you learn a noun, you do not just learn rex (king). You learn rex, regis, masculine — the nominative, the genitive, and the gender — because the genitive reveals the stem and the declension. For verbs, learn all four principal parts (amo, amare, amavi, amatum), because every tense and mood is built from one of them. A half-learned word is a word you cannot use.
The big idea
Learn the full dictionary entry, or you have not learned the word.
Think about it
Given only regis (genitive), how could you predict the forms regem, rege, and regum before ever seeing them in a text?
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