Mater non patitur puerum solum extra domum currere.

Mother does not allow the boy to run outside the house alone.

Breakdown of Mater non patitur puerum solum extra domum currere.

• domus: the house
• puer: the boy
• mater: the mother
• non: not

Questions & Answers about Mater non patitur puerum solum extra domum currere.

Why is there no word for the in Mater and puerum?

Latin has no articles, so it does not have separate words for the or a/an.

So:

• mater can mean mother, a mother, or the mother
• puerum can mean a boy or the boy

You work out which one is meant from the context.

Why does patitur look passive, but get translated actively?

Patitur comes from patior, pati, passus sum, a deponent verb.

Deponent verbs:

• have passive-looking forms
• but active meanings

So patitur is grammatically a passive-looking form, but it means he/she allows, he/she suffers, or he/she endures, depending on context.

Here, with non, it means does not allow.

Why is puerum accusative instead of puer?

Because Latin often uses accusative + infinitive after verbs like allow, make, hear, see, and similar verbs.

In this sentence:

• mater = the subject of the main verb