"Corinna is a girl."

Translation: Corinna est puella.

[Maughanster_]

Would "Corinna puella est." be an acceptable answer? (edit: I realized I spelled "Corinna" as "Corrina" so nevermind!)

[tzznandrew]

Not just acceptable, preferable.

[Maughanster_]

What makes it preferable? I'm curious.

[Trofaste]

The most standard and neutral word order in Latin puts the verb at the end. Changes to word order change the emphasis.

[JamesLee95]

i think you want to mean "natural " here instead of "neutral", am i right ?

[Trofaste]

No, I actually did mean "neutral". :) I meant that that word order has no particular emphasis, unlike if you change the order.

[BarAdal3]

Why is the double L here pronounced like a diphthong here? Isn't (Classical) Latin perfectly phonetic?

[BarAdal3]

I mean except they probably pronounced Y as I, but that would've only been because they can't make the "ü" sound in the first place

[GuilesTheme]

Why is it 'puella' and not 'puellam?' Is there something special about state of being verbs and direct objects?

[ctkjg]

There is no object in the sentence, and therefore no 'puellam' (in the accusative).
Corinna is the subject and puella restates/describes that subject, therefore is also the subject (and remains in the nominative).

Corinna est puella.
Puella est Corinna.

I've heard this scenario referred to as 'nominative complement' in studying Latin, and 'predicate nominative' more generally.

[RoyaleSube]

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[cat_tings]

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[Villain-Deku]

why is a man saying this