"I am well."
Translation:Me bene habeo.
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"Bene ego" doesn't have a verb. While colloquial, classical Latin sometimes omits "to be," the sentence "bene ago" ("I am faring well") is more grammatical.
2035
A few reasons:
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"est" is the 3rd person conjugation. You need to say "ego sum". It's "I am" after all, not "I is".
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"bene" is strictly an adverb. It does not compare with the English "well" which is an adjective when used to discuss health.
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"Me bene habeo" is idiomatic in Latin. It's literally "I hold myself well", thus "bene" is an adverb modifying "hold," which is an active verb.
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Stative verbs such as "esse/to be" take adjectives because as verbs of state, anything in the predicate is a subject complement, meaning it directly modifies the subject, not the verb.
I think "valeo" is an acceptable answer, but I jumped right to the placement test so the test may only want the answers that were used in "learn" mode.
