"Coqui cenas coquunt."

Translation: The cooks cook dinners.

[Septimus734191]

In English, dinner would be singular if it is one meal shared together, like mom cooking for the family: dinner, singular, not dinners, plural. But if the cooks are fixing meals for lots of different people eating separately, as in a restaurant, then it would be plural.

What about Latin? Would it ever be "Coqui cena coquunt"?

[Qwynneth662]

It would be "cenam" due to it being inflected into accusative case. "Coqui cenam coquunt." is "(The) cooks cook (a/the) dinner".

[PERCE_NEIGE]

And plural: cenas (in a restaurant).

[Septimus734191]

Thank you for responding helpfully!

[Steve83777]

She pronounced cena "chain-ah". Shouldn't it be "kayne-ah"? (classical pronunciation?)

[virpacalis]

Funny sounding dinners: chain as

[Ara198204]

I would have pronounced it as "kaynas"

[Steve83777]

Yes, I caught this too, second time. She is pronouncing it wrong (or rather using late Latin pronunciation which is inconsistent). Should be kaynas.