"Do you like my ring?"
Translation:Placetne vobis anulus meus?
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For me, this sentence showed up as word-choice, with vobis as the only "you". It would be testing whether i can recognize vobis.
It will accept either if you have a free typing exercise.
With the tiles, it bases it off of the default answer, which has vobis. There really isn't an issue with that, though. As long as a correct answer is provided, you're fine.
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The words are related in Latin, anulus (diminutive of anus, literally something like 'little ring') comes from anus (a ring, an anus), so it is understandable.
Because, in this sentence, 'anulus' is the subject and it is pleasing 'to you'. Vobis means 'to you (all)'.
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Anulus is the nominative singular while anulos is the accusative plural. We are talking about one ring so we have to use a singular form and the verb placet is being 'performed' by anulus. The translation would more literally "Is my ring pleasing to you?"
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Look at the plurality of the subject (here anulus meus). Since it is singular we use placet (singular third person) with -ne appended. If the subject was anuli mei then we would use placent (plural third person) with -ne appended.