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"The sick woman goes to the doctor."
Translation:Femina aegra ad medicum it.
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Yes, but in this case how to know if it's a woman or a girl?
I though it was only possible for masculine?
I would need clarifications.
I don't think it is that weird. "They heal the sick. I hate the poor." are understandable sentences in English. Also many learners speak English as a second language and substantive adjectives are pretty commom in other languages.
fair point. it certainly is an option without a word bank and with a keyboard, though
Please report "mulier", it was accepted in other sentences as a synonym for femina.
don't take my word for it because in truth i'm at sea with all this too, but as I understand it: the two prepositions are ad, which is 'to' and ab, which is 'from'.
however 'ab' behaves like the english word 'an' and loses the b when the following word has a consonant.
So you get 'ab urbe', 'from the city', but 'a foro', from the market. the preposition is the same in both sentences.
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"Aegri" can be used for "sick men". Can "aeger" be used for "sick man" (instead of vir aeger") & "aegra" for "sick woman" (instead of "femina aegra")
Yes. Using an adjective without a noun like that is called a “substantive adjective”.
English does this too, yet not as often. An example would be: “the rich are fighting the poor.“. The word “people” is the implied modified noun for both English adjectives.
While a female doctor would certainly be less common, nothing in the English sentence says the sex of the doctor, so yes, it should be ok.
except for "ad medicum," which should be kept in that order, and together. All other words may change position.
is it possible to leave the preposition out altogether? does 'medicum it' or 'medico venit' speak for itself?
Maybe my work order wasn't ideal, but Latin is fully inflected, and so word order shouldn't matter.
Inflection does make the word order looser, but there are guidelines or rules that were nearly always followed.
For instance prepositions should precede their objects
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The ending on the adjective depends on: 1) which declension it belongs to, and 2) the gender, number and case of the noun it modifies/describes. If you google "Latin declension tables", you should be able to find a handy reference to check as you study :)
