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- "Puella non est femina."
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"femina" could be used for anything feminine, so also a child or even animals. The more frequent and specific word for woman is "mulier". To the contributors to this course, I'd highly recommend replacing femina by mulier, not just in this sentence but in general.
I think it depends on the dialect. In modern French and Occitan we say "femme" and "femna", which come from Latin "fémina" (also "fembra" in old Catalan) to refer to women. In modern Catalan and Italian we say "dona" and "donna", from "domina"; and in Spanish and Portuguese, "mujer" and "mulher", from "mulier".
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You have to realize that languages have different grammar rules. In English, we put "not" before the thing we want to negate. But in Latin, "non" should come before the verb.