Questions tagged [syntax]
Syntax are the rules for how sentences and phrases are constructed in a language, including word order and how words change based on their relations to other words (snl.no/syntaks).
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How do you say "a sign that" as in "That is *a sign that* your rabbit loves you."?
How do you say "a sign that" as in "That is a sign that your rabbit loves you."?
Would it be "Id est signum quod tuus cuniculus te amet."? Or "Id est signum ut tuus ...
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In the construction "magno argumento esse", does "argumento" take an explanatory infinitive?
Cicero, Phil. 2.16: Quod autem idem maestitiam meam reprehendit, idem iocum, magno argumento est me in utroque fuisse moderatum.
Cicero, ND 1.1 (LCL 268): De qua tam variae sunt doctissimorum ...
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Is there a poetic term for breaking up a phrase, rather than a word?
In the classical rhetorical tradition, the term "tmesis" is used for breaking up a compound word, as in Ovid's circum virum dant for virum circumdant.
Is there a term for breaking up a noun ...
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Which sounds more natural in latin?
I know you can often shuffle the order of words in Latin sentences, preserving the meaning of the sentence if you do it right. Still, there are some things that just don't sound "natural" or ...
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Cethegus (...) recitatis litteris debilitatus atque abiectus conscientia repente conticuit. (Cic. Catil. 3, 10)
I was wondering about the correct/preferred syntactic analysis of recitatis litteris in the following complex sentence from Cicero:
Tum Cethegus, qui paulo ante aliquid tamen de gladiis ac sicis, ...
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Use of reflexive pronoun in passive periphrastic constructions
As I understand it:
the reflexive pronoun is used when the object of a sentence relates to the subject e.g. puer cor suum sequitur - the boy follows his (own) heart.
to convey a meaning of ...
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How do you say "One more question for you." in Latin?
So, how do you say "One more question for you." in Latin? I think it would be "Unam plurem quaestionem ad te.", but I am not sure.
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How is this perfect passive participle being used?
From Metamorphoses book II:
nec minus Heliades fletus et, inania mortimunera, dant lacrimas, et
caesae pectora palmisnon auditurum miseras Phaethonta querellas nocte
dieque vocant adsternunturque ...
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How do you say "I've been serving my master my whole life." in Latin?
How do you say "I've been serving my master my whole life." in Latin? I think it is "Totam vitam servo dominum meum." (literal translation of Croatian "Cijeli život služim ...
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LLPSI: Cap. XIII, '...quibus haec sunt nōmina...'
My question concerns the sentence which begins at Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, chapter 13, line 1.
What are the cases of 'haec' and 'nōmina' in the following excerpt?
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LLPSI: "Mārcus Quīntum ad terram cadere uidet."
I am attempting to come to a elementary understanding any clauses in the Latin sentence
"Mārcus Quīntum ad terram cadere uidet"
on page 73 in the work entitled "Lingua Latina Per Se ...
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Should apposition in ancient Greek be identified as juxtaposition or coordination?
I have noticed in Greek grammars that varying descriptions of the syntactic relationship of elements placed side-by-side (with no conjunction) have been alternately described as either A) (...
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Can There Be Multiple Subjects in a Clause Where One Is the Subject of Another Clause
I want to construct "I like learning, but learning from a book only can be boring": "Discere amo, sed discere a libro ipso sit taediosum."
I was wondering if you can omit "...
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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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Analysis of sentence "hunc Dātamēs vīnctum ad rēgem dūcendum trādit Mithridātī"
I am confused by the grammar (or rather wikipedia's analysis) of the sentence
Hunc Dātamēs vīnctum ad rēgem dūcendum trādit Mithridātī. (Nepos)
It appears in a wikipedia article where its ...
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