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Una femina studet et scribit. I believe that not placing the article there renders the definite article in English.
Well, Latin do have some definite-article-like words also and they are : ille, illa, illud. I don't think that not placing any article-like words in Latin will make an equivalence of definite article in English, because such system of article doesn't exist in Latin. If you use "una femina" it will have a meaning like "that one woman alone" or "only one woman" (emphasizing on being alone) rather than "an unspecific woman" like in the meaning of "a woman" in English.
Thank you! This is very useful. It's the same in Romanian (which is my mother tongue).
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For me, it asked me to translate sentence. Why is "Woman studies and writes" wrong? Please help...
That doesn't really make sense in English. We would say a woman or the woman.
In English, singular nouns require some kind of article or determiner.
Yes, that is right, and especially about eager, thirsty, hungering seeking. In this context, it means the seeking of knowledge.
A lot of verbs do this sort of thing, not only in classical Latin, but also in other languages. We have some of the consequences in English, e.g. "credit" and "credible" come from the Latin verb meaning to trust and to believe. Financial "credit" is about trusting that the borrower will pay the lender back, though mostly we have forgotten that and think of "credit" being the money.
There is another knowledge-seeking word, quaere, that's got a different nuance, more about getting specific answers. It is where "question" and "inquire" come from.
It took me awhile till I realized that it wants woman and that I had put women. There is a difference.
No one here can do anything about that. You'll need to post in the troubleshooting forum:
https://forum.duolingo.com/topic/647
Or submit a bug report:
https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/204728264-How-do-I-report-a-bug-
The slow button only works with computer generated voices. These are real people.
Duo: "Good Work, Five in a row!" Me: "Thank You, but you have given me the same question 5 times...". ; )
My answer is like Duolingo answer. I don't understand why isn't accepted?
Do you see any difference between my and your transl.? I don't either, so...
I got it wrong, because I switched "studies" and "writes." Has anyone else got that wrong?
That is not a bug. If you're asked to translate X and Y, do not switch it to Y and X.
No. If you write that, then the program thinks you believe that "studet" is "writes" and "scribit" is "studies".
No, that's not correct. Femina means the woman. Saying she is not specific enough.
Duolingo Latin doesn't do macrons at all. Some of us find that frustrating because we find macrons helpful to learn, and they help to overcome difficulties hearing the recordings. Others say that Latin hasn't used macrons anyway except in very modern beginner's textbooks (and numerals). Modern Latin also used both ´ and ` diacritics, and no one seems to argue for that. No one seems especially bothered by the u,v and i,j usage either, nr upper case for proper nouns and the beginnings of sentences, nor 'traditional' punctuation.
If you are wanting to know the vowel length: this conjugation has a short e in the 1st and 3rd person, and a long ē in the 2nd person:
I/we study: studeo studemus you study: studēs studētis he studies: studet student
The textbooks typically give monēo (I warn) as a model.
Nope.
In the nominative, femina/woman is the singular and feminae/women is the plural.
Also:
"The woman studies and writes" is "Femina studet et scribit."
"The women study and write is "Feminae student et scribunt."
Consider also singular "woman" as a synecdoche for all women. Grammatically that's "women", but stylistically the singular means either one or all, not several.
That's a valid translation in educated English from what is supposedly educated clasical Latin. "Woman" with no article works but not "Women" with no article.
Duolingo supposedly wants to accept all valid translations.
This is the beginner section here. Right now, it's just basic vocabulary and basic grammar. It's not making any statements, clever or otherwise. Right now, we're just learning the difference between singular and plural in simple, literal sentences.
We want to accepted valid translations within reason. We have to draw the line somewhere.
