"Duae picturae sunt in aedificio."

Translation: Two pictures are in the building.

[Carpetini]

Are pictures or paintings?

[allenfrang]

Hi, why is the c in edificio pronounced as a voiced dental fricative [ð]? I thought it should be something like /k/

[Sebastian752519]

The current recording has /k/

[SimonRusht1]

'in aedificio' - is this dative or ablative? please explain its use here

[-Copernicus-]

It's ablative. Latin prepositions use either accusative or ablative, not dative.

In the case of "in," which can take either, you use ablative if the object is a location ("inside/within something") and accusative if it's a destination ("into something"). The building is just a location-- the pictures aren't going from outside to inside of it-- so we use ablative.

[Arthur723904]

pictūrae

[IrmgardBre2]

Do american pupils really learn such a pronounciation? ae should be pronounced like the German ä as you hear in Jack ,bag, not like I,as in light.

[dxrsam]

well, ä is probably the correct pronunciation in Classical Latin, but it must have been a diphthong in an earlier stage of the language, which is why is written with two letters

[edinsonfab12]

Asi lo escribí porque me sacó error? :l