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"Boston and New York are cities."
Translation:Bostonia et Novum Eboracum sunt urbes.
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Yes. Novi Eboraci is the locative and Novum Eboracum is the nominative.
Here is a plain-English overview of what the cases are and how they work:
Latin cases, in English
Here are the noun and adjective declension charts:
declensions 1-3
declensions 4&5
Adjectives must agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns they modify, but they have their own declensions. Sometimes you get lucky and the adjective just happens to follow the same declension as the noun, but that is not a guarantee.
For good measure, here are the verb conjugation charts:
1st Conjugation
2nd Conjugation
3rd Conjugation
3rd i-stem Conjugation
4th Conjugation
Latin syntax is somewhat flexible, but it is typically SOV (Subject Object Verb).
However, "esse (to be)" is a verb of state, not of action, and therefore takes a subject complement rather than a direct object. It is not uncommon in this case to have SVC (Subject Verb Complement) to better differentiate the subject from the complement, since they're all in the nominative case.
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Bostonia and Novum Eboracum are nominative case, ubes is also nominative case Subject and predicate are in the same case. For example: Ego sum puella - I am a girl Tu es puer. - You are a boy. Novum Eboracum is singular, neuter, nominative.