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"Is there a university in Rome?"
Translation:Estne universitas Romae?
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It's not mandatory, but better. If you put the -ne, it's more common to have it at the beginning of the sentence, but I read some authors who put the -ne hosted word in the middle of the sentence.
Not recommended, through. Far better to follow the general rule (90% of the cases), and to let the weird emphatic sentences for later. But they are not wrong.
The lesson tips said that the "-ne" part is optional, but "Universitas Romae est?" was marked wrong. Is this a mistake on my part or on Duo's part? Like, am I overlooking something, or should this have been accepted? Pye20's comment elsewhere in this thread is making me think that it might be more natural if I moved "est" to the beginning of the sentence because it's a question, but nevertheless...
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"Estne universitas in Roma?" was marked as wrong. I thought the locative "Romae" and the expression "in Roma" to be interchangeable
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I read "-ne" was optional, and in latin words can be placed in different places. So why is it incorrect "Romae universitas est?"