Capulator concam et trullam portat.

The subject is capulator.

You can tell because:

• it is in the nominative singular form
• the verb portat is third-person singular, so it matches a single subject

So capulator is the one doing the carrying.

Portat is the verb, and it is:

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

So it means carries or is carrying, depending on context.

The ending -t is the normal ending for he/she/it in the present tense.

They end in -am because they are accusative singular.

In this sentence, they are the direct objects of portat—they are the things being carried.

So:

• concam = one object being carried
• trullam = another object being carried

This is very common with first-declension nouns: the accusative singular often ends in -am.

Capulator is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject.

It does not take an accusative ending because it is doing the action, not receiving it.

So the pattern is:

• capulator = subject, nominative
• concam et trullam = direct objects, accusative

Et means and.

It joins concam and trullam, showing that both are objects of portat.

So the structure is:

• carries a bowl
• and a trowel

Both belong together as things the subject carries.

Latin often places the verb at or near the end of the sentence, especially in simple textbook sentences.

So Capulator concam et trullam portat follows a very common Latin pattern:

• subject
• object(s)
• verb

But Latin word order is more flexible than English because the endings show the grammar. So other orders are possible, such as:

• Concam et trullam capulator portat
• Capulator portat concam et trullam

These would still mean basically the same thing, though the emphasis may shift.

There is no separate word for the or a/an in this sentence, because classical Latin does not have articles like English does.

So:

• capulator can mean the capulator or a capulator
• concam can mean the bowl or a bowl
• trullam can mean the trowel or a trowel

Context tells you which is most natural in translation.

In this sentence:

• capulator is a third-declension noun
• concam comes from a first-declension noun
• trullam comes from a first-declension noun

That helps explain the endings:

• third-declension nominative singular: often variable, here capulator
• first-declension accusative singular: -am, as in concam and trullam

Yes.

Because portat already tells you the subject is third-person singular, Latin can often omit an explicit subject if it is understood from context.

So Concam et trullam portat would mean He/She is carrying a bowl and a trowel.

Here, capulator is included for clarity or emphasis.

There are two main clues:

1. Both are in the accusative singular
2. They are joined by et

So Latin is presenting them as a pair:

• concam
• et trullam

Both depend on portat.

In other words, the sentence does not mean that one noun somehow describes the other. It means the subject carries both things.

A simple classroom pronunciation would be something like:

ka-poo-LAH-tor KON-kam et TROOL-lam POR-tat

A few helpful points:

• c is always hard, like k
• tr is pronounced clearly, not like English ch
• portat has the stress on POR
• capulator has the stress on LA

If you are using a restored classical pronunciation, your teacher may give slightly more precise vowel values, but this approximation is a good start.