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.
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