Suppostor argentum appendit.

A simple way to parse it is:

• suppostor = the subject
• argentum = the direct object
• appendit = the verb

So the structure is basically:

• someone does something to something

More specifically:

• suppostor is the person doing the action
• argentum is the thing affected by the action
• appendit tells you what action is happening

This is a very common Latin sentence pattern, even though the verb often comes at the end.

Because suppostor is in the nominative singular, which is the case Latin normally uses for the subject of a sentence.

For an English speaker, it helps to think:

• nominative = the form used for the doer
• accusative = the form used for the receiver of the action

Also, nouns ending in -tor are very often agent nouns in Latin, meaning a person who does something, and they are usually third-declension masculine nouns.

So here suppostor is naturally understood as the one who performs the action.

Here argentum is understood as the direct object, because it is in the accusative singular.

A very important detail, though: argentum is a neuter noun, and in many neuter nouns the nominative singular and accusative singular look the same. So the form argentum could, in another sentence, be either nominative or accusative.

How do you tell here?

You use a combination of:

• the other noun in the sentence
• normal sentence pattern
• meaning/context

Since suppostor is clearly nominative, and since the meaning shown to the learner already tells you who is doing what, argentum is taken as the object.

So this is a good example of an important Latin skill: sometimes one form can match more than one case, and you rely on the rest of the sentence to decide.

appendit is a finite verb form. It tells you:

• tense: present
• voice: active
• mood: indicative
• person: third
• number: singular

So grammatically it means:

• he/she/it ...s
• or does ...

Because it is third person singular, it matches a singular subject such as suppostor.

Its dictionary form is appendo, appendere.

Because Latin usually does not need one.

The ending of the verb already tells you the person and number. In appendit, the ending shows third person singular, so Latin does not need to add a subject pronoun unless it wants extra emphasis.

English often needs a subject pronoun:

• he hangs
• she weighs
• it pays

Latin often just uses the verb form itself, or a noun plus the verb, as here:

• suppostor appendit

So Latin is often more compact than English.

Because Classical Latin has no definite article and no indefinite article.

So Latin does not normally have separate words exactly equivalent to:

• the
• a / an

That means a noun like suppostor can mean, depending on context:

• the suppostor
• a suppostor

And argentum can similarly be translated with or without the, depending on what makes best sense in English.

This is one of the first adjustments English speakers have to make in Latin: articles are supplied by context, not by separate words.

Yes: verb-final order is very common in Latin.

So:

• Suppostor argentum appendit

feels very natural in Latin, even though English usually prefers:

• The suppostor appends the silver
• or whatever English wording fits the meaning you were given

Latin word order is more flexible than English because case endings do much of the grammatical work.

That means the same basic idea could often be rearranged, for example, to emphasize different words. But the version with the verb at the end is a very standard, textbook-like Latin order.

• suppostor is a third-declension noun
• argentum is a second-declension neuter noun

For an English-speaking learner, this matters because the endings follow different patterns.

suppostor

Like many nouns ending in -tor, it is a third-declension masculine noun. Its nominative singular is suppostor.

argentum

This is a regular second-declension neuter noun. A learner should notice the typical neuter pattern:

• nominative singular: -um
• accusative singular: -um

That is why argentum looks the same whether it is subject or object.

It can mean more than one thing depending on context.

Common possibilities include:

• silver as a metal
• silverware or silver objects
• money, especially silver money

This is very normal in Latin. A word often has a core meaning and then a wider range of related meanings.

So if a learner sees argentum, they should not assume it always means only the raw metal. Context decides which English translation fits best.

In a simple classroom-style Classical Latin pronunciation, you could say it approximately like this:

• sup-PO-stor ar-GEN-tum ap-PEN-dit

A few useful points:

• g in argentum is always a hard g, as in get
• c and g do not soften before front vowels the way they often do in English
• each vowel is pronounced clearly
• the doubled consonant in appendit should be pronounced a bit more strongly than a single consonant

If you are not using macrons, this kind of approximate pronunciation is usually enough for beginning work.