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- "Ea est soror."
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I wonder if this term could've been used to refer to a nun? After all, the new "sect" called the Christians were coming to Rome and expanding their gospel to all parts of the empire... (the Levant region was part of the empire)
While the word would have been used by female Christians to address each other, I cannot recall it being used to describe a third party as a nun the same way we might say "she is a sister" in modern English.
Latin has no articles, so either way would work depending on the context in English.
Since Latin doesn't have any articles, soror can translate to either "a sister" or "the sister" (if context allows).
Yes, I think. It's meant to be 'She is a sister' so 'She is the sister' is incorrect.
Latin has no articles, so either way would work depending on the context in English.
No. Singular nouns require an article in English. The "either way would work" meant both "a sister" and "the sister" would work depending on context.
I just tried "She is my sister" for the fun of it; because I read in the comments to the Parents exercise that this was the common implied reading for family members and thought it was worth trying. It was wrong. (No problem though; it's fairer on the learners to keep it quite literal, I think.)
Because this is early in the beta release, there are a few possible explanations for this:
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Since this is only the first lesson, it is as you say and they're deliberately keeping it simple for now.
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It was an oversight and they forgot to add it to the database, in which case we can flag it in-lesson and report "My answer should be accepted."
I don't know how the behind-the-scenes coding works, so I don't know if the course can tell that we haven't gotten to the more advanced stuff yet and will unlock the other possible answers in the database once we've gotten to those later lessons, or if we need to flag it and report "My answer should be accepted" because the course contributors forgot to add it to this question's database.
Thanks Rae! Yeah, I didn't report it for this same combination of reasons. It'll be interesting to see how this course develops. This is the first time I'm using something so early in its development, and it's fascinating to see how quickly changes are incorporated.
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Is there a way to know what article should be used: The vs. A/An. Could this sentence be translated as either, "she is the sister" or "she is a sister." Thank you.
In a real-life conversation there would be context to indicate which one is more appropriate. In this lesson without such context, either ought to be equally accepted.
Yes. Latin has no articles, so we supply them in English as is appropriate to the sentence. With no context, it can go either way.
Why is this "ea est soror" when it's "is pater est"? Not sure if it's just a quirk of duo but the order seems to change based on gender and age ("is vir est" vs. "is est puer") of the subject.
Gender and age have nothing to do with it. The course contributors need to manually add each answer to each prompt database individually. There are bound to be inconsistencies.
In general, the preferred syntax in Latin is subject-object-verb. But "esse/to be" is a verb of state, not a verb of action, and therefore the preferred syntax there is subject-verb-complement. Since the subject and the complement are generally both in the nominative, this helps keep them separate instead of being interpreted as all just the subject.
Good. That means you know what the conjugation ought to be even when it doesn't sound right.
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Unfortunately, it accepts "Ea es soror" without even a warning of a typo. I flagged it as "my answer should not be accepted."
Could "She is sister" also be correct? I'm confused because in the previous question the answer was "You are father" and there was no option to add an article before "father" whatsoever. So I figured the same would apply here, but apparently the answer has to be "She is a sister"..... Someone explain pretty pls
If you use Duo on a phone, please install a Latin keyboard, or add the Latin dictionary to your keyboard, or you won't be able to make the exercise without being bothered by the autocorrection (or simply deactivate it).
Yes - direct translation - no articles in latin. But they didnt accept my answer "she is sister" as correct :p
To quote EllaMarisol: "No, because while Latin doesn't have articles, English does."
We don't say "She is sister" in English. The singluar needs some kind of determiner.
But the previous question accepted "You are Father" and didn't provide an option to add an article at all....
