"Marcus tempori ad templum advenit."

Translation: Marcus arrives on time to the temple.

[ElizabethB165971]

'arrives to the' doesn't sound correct English, I would say 'arrives at the', unless it's followed by a verb. e.g 'arrives to save the day'

[SGuthrie0]

I agree.
Reported it.
Did accept my "at the temple."

[DavidCousins]

"Arrives to the temple" is just wrong.

[SuzanneNussbaum]

You're right; English requires "at" if we're using the verb "arrives," and no preposition at all, if we're using the verb "reaches." You could have "Marcus comes to the temple on time" as well.

[AndrKuczar]

To arrive at/in, not to.

[VirginiaMi582244]

Marcus arrives on time at the temple.
"arrives at", "goes to" are the natural English ways of speaking.

[SGuthrie0]

Not only is it "natural", it is also correct.
(Many English speakers "naturally" speak with bad grammar. "Naturalness" is not necessarily an indicator of good, or correct English.)

[KenNicholl1]

It is more usual to say 'arrives AT the temple.'

[SuzanneNussbaum]

Sounds like he's stressing the final syllable of the verb.

[RichardHen85991]

It is very difficult to hear this correctly

[Dawn940425]

It sounds like there's an extra syllable in there both at full speed and slow. I've reported it.

[SGuthrie0]

Yes, there is a mistake.
But I had not option to report it.

Thanks for catching that. I hadn't noticed.
Have a lingot.

[gaufridius5]

I have - Marcus arrives at the temple on time - this worked. So seems ok to me. Must have been corrected.

[SGuthrie0]

It may have accepted "at the temple", but it is still wrong above.
So, the Duo mistake is Not corrected.

[NeilHutchi2]

Definitely incorrect English

[SGuthrie0]

So many people suggested a correction needed ("at," not "to").
Yet, only one (plus myself) reported it.
To get corrections made, we need to report the mistakes!

[m.h.RODO]

do we have to add 'ad' before templum when we already have it in advenit? or does advenit have nothing to do with ad sth venit?

[SuzanneNussbaum]

Yes, ad appears on the verb (advenit) and is used to start a prepositional phrase (ad + templum ).

The verb advenit is still intransitive; it doesn't control a direct object. (Compare how in English you don't "arrive the temple," but rather "arrive AT the temple.")

It's common in Latin to have the same preposition (or a form of it) used as a prefix on the verb: cum amīcīs colloquī , to speak with friends.

[Mister_Lingo]

shouldn't it be 'at the temple' not 'to the temple'?

[SuzanneNussbaum]

I think we're talking about English here:
ad templum advenit = "arrives AT the temple" or "comes TO the temple".

[Mister_Lingo]

So either way it shouldn't be 'arrives to the Temple'

[SuzanneNussbaum]

I agree that that seems like a not-very-idiomatic translation, in English (prompted by the 'dictionary' awareness that Latin ad = "to" and Latin advenīre = "to arrive").

[Mister_Lingo]

so I thought