"Tu es Marcus."

Translation: You are Marcus.

[wyqtor]

It's funny that this is also a perfectly valid French sentence (with the right pronunciation)!

[Fovulonkiin]

It's literally "Do it, Marcus." in German :D

[Raven-Winter]

No, we don't pronounce the "u" the same way and we don't pronounce the "s" at "es". But the writing is the same.

[Semeltin]

I think, wyqtor didn't mean with the right Latin pronunciation but with the right pronunciation for French. Otherwise he wouldn't have written it at all.

[ElyseWilli17]

It helps to know that Latin is VERY similar to french though if you have studied it...

[LucasNYKFCB]

Hahahaha you could say the same for Spanish and Portuguese (although the e would be é)!

[spqrconsoli]

Although "tu" pairs with "eres," and usted with "es."

[scriptapuella]

Subject pronouns are completely unnecessary in an inflected language. Es Marcus means the same thing. It would only be "tu es Marcus" if you wanted to emphasize that "YOU ONLY SPECIFICALLY YOU are Marcus, that other guy is Sextus."

[PERCE_NEIGE]

I think you mean in a highly inflected language.

Because French, for instance, is also an inflected language (a lot of conjugations, plurals, etc...), It's called a "moderated inflected language" by linguists, ( a "moderated inflected language" can be considered as "synthetic")
It's not inflected enough to be able to drop the pronouns, but even when a verbal form is specific to a person, and there can't be any ambiguity, French is not a pronoun-dropper.

So the rule Subject pronouns are completely unnecessary in an inflected language is right in Spanish, Latin, Portuguese... but not in French (It's an exception among Romance languages)

[Timothy873237]

As mentioned, "es Marcus" is perfectly fine. Subject pronouns are rarely used in Latin. They are contained in the verb.

[mosteo]

I'm afraid this is going to be a continuous nuisance, just like in the Spanish course

[ParimEestlane]

Can it be also "Es Marcus."?

[AJEmperador]

Cette phrase est la même en Français!

[aSadRichMan]

How about "Tu Marcus es"?

[PERCE_NEIGE]

It's valid. Unecessary emphatic, but valid.
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[vincemat]

...sed tu Marcellus eris

[MamaSmed]

The Continue button needs to be programmed to respond to a "return" or "enter" on the computer keyboard.
Also this "Post" button.

[JoshuaBare10]

Difference in "es" and "est"?

[Fovulonkiin]

The difference is in its conjugation.

esse (infinitive form) — irregular verb meaning "to be"

present tense:
1st Person Singular: sum (I am)
2nd Person Singular: es (you are)
3rd Person Singular: est (he/she/it is)
1st Person Plural: sumus (we are)
2nd Person Plural: estis (you are)
3rd Person Plural: sunt (they are)