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Position of reflexive pronouns
In Allen and Greenough all the examples of reflexive pronouns have them come before the verb, but Pliny the Younger in e.g. letter 6.20.11 has 'non moratus ultra proripit se effusoque cursu...' and ...
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How can you best teach possessive pronouns to English-speaking students?
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Latin and Germanic languages such as German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and probably several more, have a specific word to denote possession: As Latin says suus, sua, suum, I as a ...
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Oblique cases and 'si quis'
It is convenient to formulate conditions with si quis, for example:
Si quis me audiet canentem, non gaudebit.
If anyone hears me singing, they will not enjoy it.
Here the same unnamed person is the ...
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Does the indefinite pronoun/determiner "quă" only exist as an enclitic?
I recently learned that there is an indefinite determiner and pronoun quă used in the feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative/accusative plural with the sense "any(one)" (...
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"Felix est rex is quem omnes cives amant". Is the pronoun "is" necessary?
Considering the original phrase:
The king who all citizens love is happy.
(Portuguese: Feliz é o rei a quem todos os cidadãos amam.)
Here is a proposed Latin translation:
Felix est rex is quem ...
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Does Latin have a mechanism to disambiguate possessive pronouns of the same gender referring to distinct persons?
Question: does Latin have a grammatical mechanism to disambiguate the ambiguous use of `his' in the third of the three following English sentences?
Person A wrote a book.
Then person B wrote a ...
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Unnecessary genitive being used with 'suum'
I am not sure how to translate
Augustus affirmāvit genūs suum ab Iove ortum esse.
One can logically conclude that this much of the sentence is correct...
Augustus affirmed that ... ...
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Reference with hic, is and ille
Consider this example:
Ecce Marcus et Gaius. Hic canit, ille auscultat.
Here are Marcus and Gaius. The latter sings, the former listens.
When there are two or more things one could refer to, hic ...
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How to indicate gender of ambiguous pronoun antecedent
Consider the following sentence (a little contrived, but you can imagine a better example...):
Do you like their friends? -I only like her friends.
The obvious word-for-word translation does not ...
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What's the difference between *quisquis* and *quicumque*?
Quisquis and quicumque are both described as indefinite (or generic) relative pronouns, and are both defined in dictionaries as "whoever, everyone who...". Is there any difference at all between the ...
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