"Pueri sunt Romae."

Translation: The boys are in Rome.

[Chad_the_Lost]

Wouldn't this translate to,"The boys are Roman"?

Where's the "in" part? I guess it's apart of Romae

[tzznandrew]

If you want them to be "Roman" you would instead use the adjective "Romanus, Romana, Romanum."

Pueri Romani sunt.

[Kenny2202]

Romae is a locative which translates to "in Rome"

[BeroNajjar]

thank you I thought why don't they just use the ablative and add in, but that explains a lot

[Rae.F]

The names of cities/towns and small islands, as well as 5 particular nouns, take the locative. Everything else takes in + the ablative.

https://classics.osu.edu/Undergraduate-Studies/Latin-Program/Grammar/Cases/latin-case

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

[BlossomCoeur94]

The boys are Roman = Pueri Romani sunt

It's written "Romae" because cities, towns, and small islands take the locative case, which happens to take the same endings as the genitive case. So you don't need to use "in", because the ending (and the context too) shows it's a location.

[waldyrious]

That was really helpful, thanks!

[mothvision]

I'm still a beginner but my understanding is that "Romae" is the locative form of "Roma". So "Roma" means "Rome", and "Romae" means "in Rome". A similar thing happens with "urbus" (city) and "urbe" (in a/the city)

[J.C.M.H.]

It is urbs, in the nominative case.

[Rae.F]

It's "in urbe" becaue the locative only works with names of towns, cities, and small islands. "Urbs" is a common noun so it needs the preposition plus the ablative.

[Rae.F]

The Locative Case - latintutorial

[Woldemar_Lut]

Can it mean also: ‘There are boys in Rome’?

[tzznandrew]

The Latin way of expressing existence with 'sum, esse, fui" is to put the "to be" verb at the head of the sentence.

So, "There are boys in Rome" would be:

• Sunt pueri Romae.

[JasonGilli14]

Yeah, that's how I translated it, but it didn't like it. I wonder if there's another way to express the same sentiment then?

[Simon269252]

This guy's accent is really good tbh compared to the other speakers

[krtzrovavrt]

"The boys are in Rome" sounds a bit like a meme or something that wannabe funny youtubers would say...

[Luke.19.10]

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