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"We teach boys and girls."
Translation:Pueros et puellas docemus.
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To be honest, "Pueros puellasque docemus." is also right, even if it's not taught (yet) in this course. The suffix '-que' added to the second accusative word (in this case) is interchangeable with 'et'.
On a whim, I tried "Pueros puellasque docemus." It was accepted (31 May 2020).
Duolingo often accepts forms they haven't taught yet. Which is handy if you're taking a course as a review.
Yes, I'd like to see a -que option, too! The trick is (as you say) to add it to the second member that's being joined, not (as with et and "and") to put it between them.
The word -que (an "enclitic," like the -ne used to ask a yes/no question, it's not a word by itself, but must be attached at the end of a word) is another way to say "and."
We use "et" (like Engl. "and") by inserting it 'between' the two connected items: boys and girls: pueri et puellae (in any case: pueros et puellas, etc.) he talks and shouts: loquitur et clamat
-que will come at the end of the 2nd item: pueri puellaeque / pueros puellasque; loquitur clamatque.
(I think of it as: A et B , but A Bque
SPQR - abbreviation for Senātus Populusque Rōmānus (The Senate and People of Rome).
Yes; that's a good example of how "-que" works.
The first element is Senātus; the second element is Populus. (The adj. Rōmānus belongs to both; we translate it "of Rome," but note that formally it's the adj. "Roman.")
There isn't just one "plural" form of a noun in Latin; there are 5, for the different "cases" (or functions).
Pueri is THEY the boys, as a plural subject. Pueros is THEM the boys, as a plural object (here, object of the verb, or 'direct' object: we teach THEM).
There are also: puerorum, OF the boys, when they possess something; and two different uses of pueris, one (dative), TO/FOR the boys (as indirect object), and ablative pueris as object of certain prepositions (a pueris, by the boys, cum pueris, with the boys, etc.).
The noun "girls" belongs to a different declension (or group of nouns with a specific pattern of endings): puellae, puellarum, puellis, puellas, puellis.
