Tinnitus auditur, et examen considit.

Auditur is 3rd person singular, present tense, passive voice, indicative mood of audio, audire.

So it means:

• is heard
• or, in smoother English, sometimes can be heard

The ending -tur is the key passive ending here.

Because auditur is passive.

In an active sentence, the thing being heard would be the direct object:

• aliquis tinnitum audit = someone hears a ringing/buzzing

But in the passive, that thing becomes the subject:

• tinnitus auditur = the ringing/buzzing is heard

So tinnitus is in the nominative case here.

Here it is singular, because the verb auditur is singular.

A learner may notice that tinnitus can look tricky, because some 4th-declension forms end in -us in both singular and plural. But the verb settles it:

• auditur = is heard → singular subject

So here tinnitus means a ringing / a buzzing sound, not multiple sounds.

Yes, it is related to the English word tinnitus.

But in Latin, tinnitus is a more general word for a ringing, jingling, buzzing, or tinkling sound. It does not automatically mean the modern medical condition the way English tinnitus usually does.

So a Latin learner should not assume the medical meaning unless the context clearly points that way.

Here examen is nominative singular and is the subject of considit.

Why do we know?

• Examen could, by form alone, be either nominative or accusative, because it is a neuter 3rd-declension noun
• but considit is an intransitive verb, so it does not take a direct object here
• therefore examen must be the subject

So the structure is:

• examen considit = the swarm settles / alights

No, here examen does not mean a school exam.

In classical Latin, examen can mean things like:

• a swarm
• a cluster
• the tongue of a balance
• by extension, something connected with testing or weighing

In this sentence, because considit means settles/alights, examen is best understood as a swarm, often especially a swarm of bees.

So although English exam is historically related, that is not the sense here.

Considit is 3rd person singular, present tense, active voice, indicative mood of consido, considere.

It means:

• settles
• sits down
• alights
• comes to rest

So examen considit means the swarm settles or the swarm alights.

Here it is present, not perfect.

A learner may confuse it with a perfect form because Latin verbs can sometimes look similar across tenses. But for consido:

• considit = he/she/it settles or is settling (present)
• the perfect is normally consedit = he/she/it settled or has settled

So in this sentence the action is happening in the present.

Because Latin has no articles.

Latin does not have separate words that directly equal English a/an or the. English has to add them when translating, based on context.

So:

• tinnitus could be a ringing or the ringing
• examen could be a swarm or the swarm

The context determines which sounds best in English.

Latin word order is more flexible than English word order because Latin uses endings to show grammatical function.

This sentence is actually fairly straightforward:

• Tinnitus auditur
• et examen considit

That is basically subject + verb, then and, then subject + verb.

But Latin could rearrange the words for emphasis without changing the basic meaning. The endings tell you what each word is doing.

Sometimes, yes.

A very literal translation is:

• the ringing/buzzing is heard

But English often prefers a more natural phrasing, such as:

• a ringing is heard
• one hears a buzzing
• there is a buzzing sound

That does not change the Latin grammar: auditur is still a passive form. It is just that English sometimes expresses the idea more idiomatically in a different way.