Word
Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.
Meaning
The girl stands at the corner of the street and waits for her friend.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.
puella
the girl
et
and
stare
to stand
amica
the female friend
Questions & Answers about Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.
Why is puella the subject, and how can I tell?
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.
Why is there no word for the or a in the sentence?
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
Why is it ad angulum and not just angulus?
The preposition ad means to, toward, or often at/by with places. After ad, Latin normally uses the .