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It's good to learn the sequence "matrem nostram," but it seems funny, to me, to put it in a sentence that emphatically states, Nos visitamus. To convey the meaning, "We visit our mother," you need no more than Matrem visitamus. I don't think Latin is as prolific with possessive adjectives (when it's obvious) as, for example, English.
J.C.M.H.
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Spanish is closer to Latin than Portuguese in the possesive in this case: nuestra vs. nossa.
DianneChar
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Same here - I though very carefully before putting mater nostra and listened two or three times. I thought there must be some hidden reason for this to be nominative...