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Learn Hardcore Latin: verum - the truth

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 10
/verum

verum

Word

verum

Meaning

the truth

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of verum

Discipuli credunt magistram verum dixisse, et eam libenter audiunt.

The students believe that the teacher has spoken the truth, and they gladly listen to her.

Puer verum dicit, et mater gaudet.

The boy tells the truth, and mother rejoices.

Nuntius dicit se verum dixisse.

The messenger says that he told the truth.

Ego nescio quis verum dicat, sed omnes sperant rem sine mora finem habituram esse.

I do not know who is telling the truth, but everyone hopes that the matter will come to an end without delay.

Mater rogat num servus innocens sit; iudex respondet eum mox liberandum esse, si verum dixerit.

Mother asks whether the servant is innocent; the judge answers that he must soon be freed, if he has told the truth.

Si servus verum dicit, iudex eum e carcere liberat.

If the servant tells the truth, the judge frees him from prison.

Testis iurat se verum dicere.

The witness swears that she is telling the truth.

Uterque testis verum dicit.

Each of the two witnesses tells the truth.

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