"Livia, please give me the wine."

Translation: Livia, quaeso, da mihi vinum.

[Pauline703576]

The order of the words in this case is not compulsory.

[jcarty123]

Correct. But as a style choice, commands seem to start with the verb most often.

[StevenOBri10]

Livia bibitor est

[Gennaro568019]

Livia bibitRIX est!

[The3rdBeast]

I forgot the comma after please, and it said it was incorrect. Since when does Duolingo care about punctuation! This should be more of a language site and less of a grammer site.

[PauloChen2]

I suspect there was another problem with your answer.

My understanding is that Duolingo strips the punctuation from our responses before comparing them to the answers stored in the database.

I rarely bother putting in any punctuation and have never been dinged for it.

[DrWheeler]

Does "amabo te" not work for "please"? Has Wheelock been lying to me all these years?

[mosfet07]

It is accepted.

[GaiusSolitaire]

What, "I'll love you"? Doesn't sound right to me...

[DrWheeler]

What else would "please" mean, if not "I'll love you [if you give me what I'm asking for]"?

[motwell]

I tried "mihi da" with no punctuation, and it didn't like it. (?)

[Eaden0]

Does "quaesumus" work? It's a very common word in ecclesiastical latin.

[Xahnas]

Well not really in this case. 'Quaeso' means 'I beg, I ask, I seek'. 'Quaesumus' ('we beg, we ask, we ask') would then only work if you're speaking on behalf of multiple people (like in Church as people to God).

[GaiusSolitaire]

How about "quaeso te dare mihi vinum"?

[DrWheeler]

I think "quaeso" triggers the subjunctive in that kind of sentence, so it'd be "quaeso ut des mihi vinum"