Breakdown of Medicina sanitatem efficit.
medicina
the medicine
sanitas
the health
efficere
to bring about; complete
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Questions & Answers about Medicina sanitatem efficit.
What case is medicina, and how do we know it is the subject?
Medicina is in the nominative singular, which is the case typically used for the subject of a sentence.
In this sentence, medicina is the thing doing the action of efficit, so it is the subject:
- medicina = medicine / medical treatment
- efficit = brings about, produces, causes
Even without English-style word order, the nominative case helps show that medicina is the subject.
Why is sanitatem ending in -em?
The ending -em shows that sanitatem is accusative singular.
The accusative case is commonly used for the direct object, meaning the thing directly affected by the verb. Here, sanitatem is what medicine produces or brings about.
So:
- sanitas = health (dictionary form, nominative)
- sanitatem = health, as the direct object (accusative)
This is why the sentence does not use sanitas.
What form is efficit?