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- "Corinna femina est."
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Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew would be great additions to Duolingo. I hope they add Filipino or Tagalog or even Baybayin too, and a bunch of other Polynesian languages as well.
Others might be able to help you better if you were a little more specific about what's confusing. :)
Is there any difference between "Corinna femina est" and "Corinna est femina"?
As J.C.M.H. said, word order in Latin is free (with some exceptions), but SOV is the most common. Changing the order would change the emphasis (like "Corinna is a woman.") but no more than that.
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No; word order in Latin is rather free; only the sintax Corinna femina est would have been more common in Classic Latin. For instance, the famous phrase Alea iacta est "The die ist cast".
basically, the verb (est in this case) usually goes on the end of the sentence, but sometimes it doesn't. It depends on the sentence.
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In the latin books we studied, there was mostly this position. S. O. V. That's why I prefer to write like Caesar or Ciceron !
As far as I remember from my lessons more than 40 years ago, wouldn't it rather be: Corinna mulier est. I think mulier is more commonly used for woman than femina.
Mulier is also accepted, but the course teaches femina first because it's more faniliar to English speakers.
Well anyone who has taken any Romance languages would recognize mulier as mujer in Spanish & mulher in Portuguese
Only if they took the right Romance languages (eg. French is "femme"), and the course is designed for English speakers, not Spanish or Portuguese speakers.
Mispelled 'Corinna' and instead of warning me of a typo, it counted my answer as wrong...
Deciding what is and isn't marked as a typo is done by an algorithm the contributors have no control over. In general it considers something a typo if it's only one letter different and doesn't make another word in the language.
The correction algorithm allows for one wrong letter per word to slide by as a typo.
If you misspelled Corinna as Corrina, that's two wrong letters.
S O V is the most common, standard word order in Latin, with the verb at the end. Other orders are also possible and accepted, though.
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Because sum is the first person singular; here we need the third person singular, est, because of Corinna.
Yes. Because just like any other noun and pronoun, names get declined and you need to learn the different forms. And when writing in English, they said to not translate but to keep the nominative form.
okay so the diference between "femina est" and "est femina" is the emphasis, but how can i know what exactly am i putting on emphasis
It says i got this wrong but i didnt and i lost all my hearts for it please fix it
