Breakdown of Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.
Questions & Answers about Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.
Puella is in the nominative singular, which is the form Latin commonly uses for the subject of a sentence.
- puella = girl as subject
- not puellam = girl as direct object
So in Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat, puella is the one doing the actions: stat and exspectat.
Latin does not have articles like English the and a/an.
So puella can mean:
- the girl
- a girl
Which one sounds best depends on the context or the translation you were given.
The same is true for other nouns here:
- angulum = the corner or a corner
- amicam = the friend or a friend
The preposition ad means to, toward, or often at/by with places. After ad, Latin normally uses the .