"Marcus est homo pessimus."
Translation:Marcus is the worst human.
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"Marcus est homo pessimus" loquitur Psittacus iratus... Post marcus psittacum mane pulsat..
Excellent! Hilarious!
If I may make a suggestion: when they directly quoted people's (or animals' !) words, they used the special verb inquit (for HE/SHE SAID) or inquiunt (for THEY SAID). In fact, they 'embed' the special "quoting" verb in the quoted speech, presumably because they didn't have quotation marks (yet) to indicate which were the directly quoted words.
You could write: Psittacus īrātus loquitur! "Marcus," inquit, "est homō pessimus." Post Marcus psittacum māne pulsat.
And then perhaps Marcus goes and drinks some wine before breakfast!
I'm pretty sure aliens speak Latin, now. "Ugh, Marcus is the worst human, throw him back."
That or it's Duo talking.
I think "Marcus is a very bad man" should match. In Latin the superlative can mean "very X" as well as "the most X".
Yes: "Marcus is a terrible person" is a good translation of pessimus. (Latin often signals " most/worst OF ALL" by using a genitive plural: Marcus est pessimus omnium [discipulorum / magistrorum], "he's the worst of all (students / teachers)."
Marcus est homō pessimus, psittacī tamen ēbriī sunt omnium animālium pessimī.
I believe if Stephanus, or Corinna, or Livia, you would have asked why not Marcus..
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My old English teacher would have been horrified. Human is an adjective not a noun, she would have said.
Vir is man (gender) and homo is man (human/mankind) right? So for example, "mankind is the worst" would be "homo est pessimus" and "marcus, the man, is the worst" would be " vir est pessimus"?
Not quite. Homō does not mean "mankind." It means "person, human being," or what I would describe as "man" in the generic sense.
If you want to talk about mankind , I think you need something like genus hūmānum . A homō is an individual person; it doesn't mean the whole group of us.
(If you say that Marcus est homō pessimus , I suppose you're insisting that he's the worst person--females included.)
When are we getting a tense other than present?
Never.
The Latin course is one of the shortest courses on Duolingo, and doesn't get you very far. No subjunctive, no tenses other than the present, no ablative absolute or aci or any of the "fun stuff". Just the basics.
Oh thank God Marcus has finally shown up. Extra bonus, his last name is Kobe. Marcus Kobe est homo pessimus.