Breakdown of Serva e culina egreditur et aquam ad atrium fert.
et
and
aqua
the water
ad
to
culina
the kitchen
Questions & Answers about Serva e culina egreditur et aquam ad atrium fert.
Why is serva the subject form here?
Because serva is in the nominative singular, the case normally used for the subject of a sentence.
In this sentence, serva is the one who goes out and carries the water, so nominative is the expected case.
For a first-declension noun like serva, the nominative singular form is serva.
Why does egreditur end in -tur if the servant is doing the action, not receiving it?
This is because egreditur comes from a deponent verb: egredior, egredi, egressus sum.
Deponent verbs are special Latin verbs that:
- have passive-looking forms
- but active meanings
So egreditur looks passive, but it means she goes out or she comes out, not she is gone out.
Grammatically, egreditur is:
- 3rd person singular
- present tense
- from egredior
So it means she goes out / is going out.
Why is it e culina and not just culina?