Word
Magistra discipulis narrat de mari.
Meaning
(The teacher tells the students about the sea.)
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Magistra discipulis narrat de mari.
discipulus
the student
magister
the teacher
narrare
to tell
mare
the sea
de
about
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Questions & Answers about Magistra discipulis narrat de mari.
Why is Magistra in the nominative form?
Magistra is in the nominative singular form because she is the subject of the sentence — the one performing the action of telling.
What case is discipulis, and why is it used here?
Discipulis is in the dative plural. The dative case often indicates the indirect object in Latin, which here are the students receiving the narration.
What does de mari mean, and why is mari in that case?
De mari means about the sea. The word mari is in the ablative singular (from the third declension noun mare), and it's used with the preposition de, which normally takes the ablative case.
How can I recognize that narrat is a third-person singular verb?
The suffix -at in narrat indicates the third-person singular present tense for first conjugation Latin verbs. It corresponds to he/she/it tells or is telling in English.
Could the verb tense change here if we wanted to say The teacher told the students about the sea?
Yes. To form the perfect tense (completed past action), narrat would become narravit (he/she/it told). The rest of the sentence could remain the same: Magistra discipulis narravit de mari.
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