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Latin words have inflected endings. This is the biggest difference between English and Latin. In English, the order of the words in a sentence tells you what they are doing: the subject of the verb comes first, the verb comes next, the direct object comes last.
Latin words have inflected endings.
subject = Latin words
verb = have
direct object = inflected endings
In Latin, even though there are some tendencies for word order, the only real way to tell what a word is doing in the sentence is to look at its inflected ending, the 1-4 letters that come after the word's stem.
agricola, "farmer"
agricol- stem
-a inflected ending (this ending is used when "farmer" is the subject of the verb).
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