Questions & Answers about Puer intrat cubiculum quod parvum est.
What does each Latin word in Puer intrat cubiculum quod parvum est mean on its own?
- puer – boy
- intrat – enters, goes into (3rd person singular, present tense of intrāre)
- cubiculum – room, often bedroom (neuter noun)
- quod – which (here: a relative pronoun referring to cubiculum)
- parvum – small (neuter singular form of the adjective parvus, -a, -um)
- est – is (3rd person singular, present tense of esse)
What grammatical role does puer have, and why is it in that form?
Puer is the subject of the sentence: the boy enters…
- It is in the nominative singular, because subjects of finite verbs in Latin are normally in the nominative case.
- Its dictionary form is puer, puerī (2nd declension, masculine).
Why does intrat not need a preposition like in to mean enters?
Latin often uses verbs of motion without a preposition where English needs one:
- intrare already has the idea to go in / to enter built into it.
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