We’re going to take a look at some subjects and verbs. I’ll try to make this as painless as possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Let’s take a look at the sentence: Cicero is a farmer. In Latin this sentence would look like this: Cicer\u014d\u00a0 est<\/strong> agricola<\/strong>. In Latin, articles like the<\/em> and a<\/em> are omitted. That’s why in English, the sentence would translate as: Cicero is farmer.<\/p>\n Let’s take a look at another sentence: Cicer\u014d ferit Corneliam<\/strong>. In English this would be Cicero hits Cornelia. Yes, I know, it’s a very abusive example, but hopefully it’ll be more memorable because it invokes a strong image. This sentence carries out the subjet-verb-object sentence structure. Cicer\u014d<\/strong> is the subject because he’s doing the action (in this case, hitting) and ferit<\/strong> is the verb while Corneliam<\/strong> is the object because she’s being hit.<\/p>\n Compare this with a sentence like this: Cicer\u014d Corneliam ferit<\/strong>. In English this would be Cicero hits Cornelia. This has the same meaning as the sentence Cicer\u014d ferit Corneliam<\/strong>, but with a different sentence structure. Cicer\u014d Corneliam ferit<\/strong> follows the subject-object-verb structure.<\/p>\n In Latin, word order is flexible. Either Cicer\u014d Corneliam ferit<\/strong> and Cicer\u014d ferit Corneliam<\/strong> will work. I should also mention that while both will work, the ancient Romans preferred that the verb be placed at the end of a sentence like Cicer\u014d Corneliam ferit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You’ll also see that in many ancient Latin texts, the object of the sentence follows the subject like the sentence: Agricola filiam amat<\/strong>. Which means: The farmer loves his daughter. In English this would be: farmer daughter he loves. Filiam<\/strong> = daughter. Filiam<\/strong> is the object of the sentence because she is the one being loved. Agricola<\/strong> = farmer. Agricola<\/strong> is the subject of the sentence because he is the one doing the loving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re going to take a look at some subjects and verbs. I’ll try to make this as painless as possible \ud83d\ude42 Let’s take a look at the sentence: Cicero is a farmer. In Latin this sentence would look like this: Cicer\u014d\u00a0 est agricola. In Latin, articles like the and a are omitted. That’s why in…<\/p>\n