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"How does the woman feel?"
Translation:Quomodo femina se habet?
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Yes, but please report these problems via the "report" button, not in the comments.
Thank you.
We are learning. We cannot know if we should report it until we come here, ask, learn, and confirm.
It's the reflexive. Literally, the Latin says "How does the woman hold herself?"
Not exactly. The Spanish "sentirse" is the verb "to feel" made reflexive.
As a new beginner I am glad I do not have to remember where to place the macrons...
I mean yes, but we don't really use macrons unless its like first acc. or like second conjugation. they're just used as like identifiers.
We primarily only use macrons to distinguish the nominative from the ablative in the first declension. For example: “Femina bona est”, (the woman is good (Nom. Subject)), versus “Mihi feminā datum est” (It was given to me by the woman (Abl. Agent))
There's also some words that are not written the same: with a macron it has a meaning, and without a macron, it has a completely different meaning, and comes from another PIE root.
I understand using "like" as a filler when speaking, but when typing, you can simply pause and resume when you think of what word you want to use. Macrons are used as identifiers, not as like identifiers.
"Quomodo" is literally "quo + modo", "what manner". So we ask "Quomodo se habet femina?" Literally "How does the woman hold herself?"
"Quid" is "what". "Quid agit femina?" is literally "What is the woman doing?" but it is used idiomatically the same way in English we might say "What's up?" It's not meant to be taken literally.
Both are used to mean "How is the woman doing?"/"How is the woman feeling?"
"te" is 2nd person. "Quomodo te habes?" How are you doing?
"se" is 3rd person. "Quomodo femina se habet?" How is the woman doing?
"Quomodo te habes?" How are you doing? -- 2nd person
"Quomodo femina se habet?" How is the woman doing? -- 3rd person
How about "femina se habet quomodo"? Is there a nuance to word order that is significant here?
Question words come first and pull the focus of the question with them.
Quomodo se habet femina?
Quid agit femina?
No. As explained further up this page, "Quomodo femina se habet?" is literally "How does the woman hold herself?" Without the reflexive "se", it would just be "How does the woman hold?"
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33911664?comment_id=34402675
No. "Habet" literally means "to have/hold", therefore this construction requires the reflexive pronoun.
You can, however, say "Quid femina agit?" It literally means "What is the woman doing?" but can be used idiomatically for this purpose.
No. The two expressions are "Quomodo femina se habet?" (literally "How does the woman hold herself?") and "Quid femina agit?" (literally "What is the woman doing?")
Thank you for the quick response, I see.. so we couldn't say at all "How is the woman doing?" like how is she doing, in the same context
No. That's an English-language use of the words together like that. "Agere" was only used in terms of literal doing, acting, performing, etc. "Quomodo femina agit?" would be roughly analogous to "How is she taking?"
