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"Healthy girls go to school."
Translation:Puellae sanae in ludum eunt.
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They were joking on how Sharon gave the date as 2919 instead of 2019.
Yes, "in" is always necessary, when the locative is impossible (see other comment)
I'd like to know the same thing. I thought 'ludum' in the locative would be enough. With the 'in', I'd think it would mean "The healthy girls go INTO the school."
Ludum is not in the locative, and can't be. As the locative is an exception. It only is allowed for towns, cities, and small islands, a few other words, like domus/domi, rus/ruri, humus/humi.
Ludus is not on this list.
Is the preposition "in" the best choice here? Other exercises in Duo's Latin have used 'ad' to mean 'to.'
"go to school" is an idiom. We go "to" school, not "in" school.
As "in ludum" is the way to say it in Latin, and is not particularly an idiom, but the logical way to say it, but "ad ludum" is also possible.
Could someone tell me if using "ad ludum" insists more on the move, that "in ludum"?
To me "ad ludum" stresses the journey and "in ludum" stresses the arrival / end of the journey. If the sentences were longer / had context, I would imagine something like:
Mane domo abimus. Ad ludum imus sed primum in foro visitamus. Hic panem emimus. Tunc ab foro eximus et in ludum inimus.
Iʻd be curious if otherʻs have thoughts on this.
Excellent example; please enjoy a lingot (audīvī lingotōs dēlectābiliōrēs cum cassiā saccharōque esse)! Now, whether or not it is correct, I cannot tell without going deeply into my dictionary and grammar, but it reads well to my somewhat trained eye (at half one in the morning).
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Yikes! Where did I see the rule about motion towards and not static location? I had thought it would be "in ludo" also.
Because it needs to be the nominative, not the accusative. They are the ones doing, they are not having anything done to them.
Interesting. The cognate "ludic" means "showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness."
Ludic behavior is "playful" behavior.
I guess that applies well to what school and learning should be like.
(Speaking as a teacher as well.) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ludic
It can mean school or games. These aspects were interrelated in the education of the young. Think of gymnasium
Accusative.
http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/noun:ludus
Here is a plain-English overview of what the cases are and how they work:
Latin cases, in English
Here are the noun and adjective declension charts:
declensions 1-3
declensions 4&5
Adjectives must agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns they modify, but they have their own declensions. Sometimes you get lucky and the adjective just happens to follow the same declension as the noun, but that is not a guarantee.
For good measure, here are the verb conjugation charts:
1st Conjugation
2nd Conjugation
3rd Conjugation
3rd i-stem Conjugation
4th Conjugation
I suppose 'ad ludum' might suggest going to the school building, not going in, then doing a swift 'about turn' and scarpering!
I had "ad" rather than in and it didn't count even though ad does mean to...
I think the only word that was different was I had ad and the answer had in. I'm just going to accept that in ludum is the Latin way of saying to school.
