"Aedificium pingitis."

Translation: You paint the building.

[JohnSmith2142]

Are they painting a picture of the building on canvas (like all the paintings one can visit in a museum), or are they throwing paint at the building, (like for instance painting a graffiti-picture on the building's wall?) I guess it's the former, but can we be sure? I know that at least German has precise vocabulary to distinguish between that (malen vs. anmalen/bemalen), and while I'm not a native speaker, I think English can also express this difference by speaking about limning (making a picture of sth.) or daubing (making sth. a picture). What about Latin?

[tankenbahwl]

I assumed it was the latter, as "you paint the canvas" would have the exact same structure, right?

[water_color]

I think it is the former, because it seems more logical (you draw a picture (picturam pingitis) and the same way you drawa building (aedificium pingitis)). I assume there can be a different verb for the latter meaning.

[Honcongensis]

To my ears, the speaker is saing `fingitis'!

[Brandon640296]

To my ears he says "Pingit is" like the painter goes, I almost messed it up!

[Harald917684]

What does the speaker say at the beginning of the sentence? "Par?"

[.Asmo]

"Aedificium", no more no less. "Ae" sounds like "eye", everything seems fine to me.

[MD25082020]

Is pingis and pingitis the same? They are both used with tu

[Moopish]

No, they are different.

Pingis is singular 2nd person and used with tu, while pingitis is plural 2nd person and used with vos.

[Alex.-.-.]

Hey Duolingo devs if you have time please could you expand this course? I realise you are all very busy, but maybe include content that would help us to read Latin literature, thanks