"Hoc garum nobis placet."

Translation: We like this fish sauce.

[roemer]

Why do I learn fish sauce, fish sauce, fish sauce, fish sauce, fish sauce? Why do we throw fish on the floor? Who ever thought of these sentences? What am I doing here? Why don't I just leave? So many questions...

[Boffin10]

Well, I looked it up and found out that "There are many early Graeco-Roman literary references to fish sauce, from writers such as Aristophanes, Sophocles and Aeschylus. The numerous casual mentions suggest it was a commonplace ingredient in the ancient Mediterranean. Fish sauce in ancient Rome. The Roman version of fish sauce was called garum."

[IAmCrazyHope]

Thank you so much! I was at a loss and kinda losing my mind about the whole fish sauce thing. I know people eat fish but I find it so disgusting and was wondering if maybe they thought it had medicinal value. Guess they just really liked it!

[Boffin10]

Is hoc always "this"? Can it be "that"?

[DavidPNash]

"That" is most often "ille" and its various declined forms: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ille#Latin. A few of these show up in other lessons.

[Boffin10]

Thank you!

[Jani344]

Is placet not he likes? Should this be placimus?

[DavidPNash]

The verb "placere" behaves (grammatically) like English "please", not "like". A less natural but more literal translation is "This fish sauce pleases us". So this has a singular 3rd person verb and an objective (specifically, dative) pronoun form meaning "us".

[Jani344]

Thank you! Makes more sense to me now.

[IrmgardBre2]

The pronounciation of garum is not good, I understood something like carlo

[chubu6]

I think it is okay. It did not sound like "carlo."

[Landon_He]

"The fish sauce is pleasing to us"? Is this the literal translation? Trying to figure out the usage of "nobis" in this sentence.