Usages of cur
Pater rogat: "Cur domi manes et cum amicis non curris?"
Father asks: "Why do you stay at home and not run with your friends?"
Magister rogat: "Cur discipuli hodie in schola non manent?"
The teacher asks: "Why do the students not stay in the school today?"
Puer matrem quaerit et rogat: “Cur ad forum festinas?”
The boy looks for his mother and asks: “Why are you hurrying to the forum?”
Hospes rogat cur amphora tam cito vacua facta sit, et caupo dicit vinum hodie deesse.
The guest asks why the jar became empty so quickly, and the innkeeper says that wine is lacking today.
Puer rogat cur ovis lanam tam longam habeat.
The boy asks why the sheep has such long wool.
Mater puerum rogat: “Cur fles?”
Mother asks the boy: “Why are you crying?”
Nescio cur frater tam sero surgat; soror enim ad scholam prima venire solet.
I do not know why brother gets up so late; for sister usually comes to school first.
Magistra rogat cur discipuli hodie sero veniant et utrum mora in vico fuerit.
The teacher asks why the students are coming late today and whether there was a delay in the street.
Postea discipuli de fabula inter se disputant, et magistra rogat cur ita disputent.
Afterward the students discuss the story among themselves, and the teacher asks why they are discussing in that way.
Cur tam diu ante ianuam moramini, cum cena iam parata sit?
Why are you lingering so long before the door, when dinner is already ready?
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