"Quis est vir?"

Translation: Who is the man?

[mariamelawady]

No articles?

[davidvdb]

No, there are no articles in Latin.

[Eey91]

So, basically only context could determine whether the sentence means "who is the man" or "who is a man?"

[JurijKe]

As in most Slavic languages, which is beautiful.

[Richlogos]

Yes, in Vulgar Latin and a lot of Church Latin, they used either «ille» or «ipse», for example, «ille homo», the man. Luigi Miraglia, possibly the most fluent speaker living, and who does lectures in Latin available on Youtube, uses definite articles when speaking. But it's OK to not use them, the classical norm is always without, but feel free to use them if you already speak a Romance language and it feels more natural to you; to each their own, or «suum cuique»!

[YuriZoria]

The Ancient Greek language had articles, Latin hadn't.

[SGuthrie0]

See this tip from Duo:
https://www.duolingo.com/skill/la/Introduction/tips-and-notes

[vincemat]

Quis vir?
TU VIR!

[Jon235428]

A good way to remember this is that vir sounds like (and is cognate to) the "were" in "werewolf" which also means man!

[MattSchoon]

Good tip, although "wer" originally only meant "man" in the sense of "human person". The specific term for a female human wolf is "wifwolf".

[corvalanlara]

I hear wee-r instead of bee-r, is the pronounciation correct?

[jjfgiratina]

Yes. in Latin is pronounced /w/

[gsazbon]

Is a modern convention or there is a tradition of how was spoken?

[LobsangC]

Some tapes were finally leaked from the Roman senate.

[Salgodj]

Since the letter v gave origin ti both v and u, it's very likely the reconstruction of classical pronunciation.

[LucTHW]

I thought that if the v is between two vowels (or at the start of a word like vir) it's read "v", otherwise it's read u or w (because of what you said with the letter giving birth to two sounds)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I stand by what I've said. I'd be really glad to find out how to pronounce these words!!

[SGuthrie0]

This is Latin, not Spanish

[SGuthrie0]

English derivation: virile

[MaHumourless]

You the Man!

[Aegidius2]

Non "the man" sed tamen "a man"
Nonne ?

[faintsignal]

I'm the man
And if I'm the man
Then you're the man, and
He's the man as well…

[EricCartme2]

Im 14 and this is deep

[HutsonNed]

I use quis es vir instead of quis est vir, and i still got it right???