Usages of quid
Mater rogat filiam: "Quid nunc facis in cubiculo?"
Mother asks her daughter: "What are you doing now in the bedroom?"
Puer fessus matrem rogat: "Quid hodie in horto facere possumus, si avia non cantat?"
The tired boy asks mother: "What can we do in the garden today, if grandmother does not sing?"
Ianitor viatorem interrogat: "Quid in sacculo portas?"
The doorkeeper asks the traveler: "What are you carrying in the bag?"
Magister ostendit quid error sit et quomodo discipuli eum corrigere debeant.
The teacher shows what the mistake is and how the students ought to correct it.
Dubito num Marcus meminerit quid magistra dixerit, quia is sine libro venit.
I doubt whether Marcus remembers what the teacher said, because he came without a book.
Pater rogat quid in illa oratione difficillimum sit, et filia respondet initium sibi clarissimum videri.
Father asks what is most difficult in that speech, and his daughter answers that the beginning seems very clear to her.
Mane mater cogitat quid in foro emere velit.
In the morning mother thinks about what she wants to buy in the forum.
Magistra rogat quid heri in via acciderit.
The teacher asks what happened in the street yesterday.
Si culcita satis mollis non est, quid faciamus?
If the mattress is not soft enough, what should we do?
Quid agam, si mater me domi manere cogit?
What am I to do if mother forces me to stay at home?
Frater sorori dicit: “Quid agamus? Tempus est breve et mater iam redire vult.”
The brother says to his sister: “What should we do? The time is short and mother already wants to return.”
Pater nescit quid faciat, quia infans flere incipit et mater abest.
Father does not know what to do, because the baby begins to cry and mother is away.
Postquam domum redimus, mater rogat quid puellae in portu didicerint de gubernatore et de velo.
After we return home, mother asks what the girls learned in the harbor about the helmsman and the sail.
Nescio quid in foro fieri possit.
I do not know what can happen in the forum.
Multi cives ad contionem veniunt, quia volunt audire quid consul in curia dixerit.
Many citizens come to the assembly, because they want to hear what the consul said in the senate-house.
Lucia et amica eius versus veteres conferunt, ut melius intellegant quid auctor sentiat.
Lucia and her friend compare old verses, so that they may better understand what the author thinks.
Magistra discipulis pauca exempla praebet, deinde rogat quid ipsi in foro visuri sint.
The teacher provides the students with a few examples, then asks what they themselves are going to see in the forum.
Post comitia magistra discipulis refert quid in curia de novo magistratu dictum sit.
After the elections the teacher reports to the students what was said in the senate-house about the new magistrate.
Singuli discipuli suam opinionem scribunt, deinde inter se conferunt quid magistra de potestate dicat.
The individual students write their own opinion, then compare among themselves what the teacher says about power.
Discipula rogat utrum cives melius cognoscant quid res publica postulet, cum ipsi in foro adsint.
The female student asks whether citizens understand better what the state requires, since they themselves are present in the forum.
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