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"Stephanus was born in America."
Translation:Stephanus natus est in America.
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I said "Stephanus natus in America est." and was marked wrong, but I don't know why.
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Likewise. I'm guessing "natus" and "est" need to be together but I don't know why. "stephanus in america natus est" is also correct.
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I think verb parts need to be together like in English. "Was born" cannot be separated either
I also gave this same answer, and I don't know why I was marked wrong. I feel like it should be accepted but, as a beginner, I don't feel confident enough in that assertion to report it.
"natus est" is the English equivalent of "was born", so they can't be separated. One aspect of Latin grammar that Duo doesn't provide much of an explanation for.
Same here. I think it should be correct, but I'm not 100% sure. I reported it.
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I did the same thing. I think perhaps "Stephanus in America natus est," is what we should have written. I suspect that, just as we cannot separate "in America" we cannot separate "natus est."
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I just wrote, "Stephanus in America natus est," and it was accepted, so the answer appears to be that "natus est" should be together, just as "in America" should be together. If we split those two words, it will be marked incorrect.
What about "Stephanus est Natus in America"? Why this answer was not accepted?
I got the same problem, I think it is because "est natus in America" means "he was/is born into America," versus "natus est in America," is closer to "his birth was/is in America." It is irregular, but should still be correct.
I think it's correct, the next time you get it you might wanna report that instead of commenting
I wish the course would use locations from the classical world rather than modern day America. Greece, Italy, Egypt etc.
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Apparently it needs to be, "Stephanus in America natus est, " if you want to use the SOV sentence-structure rather than the SVO sentence-structure.
The locative is only used for cities, towns, and small islands. Not countries.
but for a previous question it was "a girl was born in Germany" and the correct answer was "puella in Germania nata est" why would it be different for this replacing Germany with America?
"in Germania" is still not in the locative case. "Germania" is simply the word for the country Germany. Also, the "in" gives it away that it's not in the locative.
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In a word-for-word sense, sure, but languages don't really translate to each other word-for-word.
There does not seem to be a consistency of expected word order in the answers.
My Latin professor some 70 years ago in Japan, late Dr Virgil Alexander Warren, would have accepted my answer, Stephanus est natus...... I don't think Latin and old Greek changed since then.
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I was marked wrong for "stephanus est in america natus". I'm not sure if I should have been or not.
The potential problem here (imho) is that in a supposed conversation this sentence structure could lead to confusion. "Stephanus est in America" is already a sentence on its own, but with a different meaning. He is currently residing/staying/"existing" in America, not elsewhere. However the sentence above aims to describe his place of birth, a location in the past, not in the present tense. The meaning changes with the very last word only. So I'd guess in spoken language it could have been less common, but poetry etc. obviously used the advantages of Latin being highly inflexive to toss word orders around for the most suiting rhythm, style or rhetorical twist.
"Gaudete, gaudete, Christus est natus, ex Maria virgine, Gaudete" says the old Christmas carol. 'Est natus' ought to be accepted here also.
thought that 'est' is flexible as to position. I had Stephanus est natus in America.
I had the same problem. This was also raised in several comments, but I didn't see a definitive answer as to why "est natus" is incorrect.
When do you use "in" (city) versus not? I do not understand when to leave out "in" and when it needs to be used.
Only use in before a nation, cities and the like simply need to be changed into locative form (Rome to Romae, for example)
Sed vir maritum habet, et femina uxorem habet, Duolingo dixit. Desmond nata est in America et Molly natus est in Italia. La la la la life goes on.
Normaly verbs are standing at the end of a sentence in latin. That's why they don't accept another position here. But it's only "normaly" ...
Is natus even a verb in this sentence? It looks like a nominative noun... as in Stephanus' birth"
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If you are talking TO Stephanus, you would call him Stephane (Salve, Stephane!), but if you are talking ABOUT Stephanus, you call him Stephanus (C.J. Cherryh says you call him Stephanum if he is the direct object of your sentence, but Duolingo seems to disagree).
