Serva vestigia in cellario videt et felem vocat.

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Breakdown of Serva vestigia in cellario videt et felem vocat.

• et: and
• videre: to see
• vocare: to call

Questions & Answers about Serva vestigia in cellario videt et felem vocat.

Why is serva the subject of the sentence?

Because serva is in the nominative singular, which is the case typically used for the subject of a Latin sentence.

• serva = the female slave / servant
• It is a first-declension noun
• Its basic dictionary form is serva, servae

So in Serva vestigia in cellario videt et felem vocat, serva is the person doing the actions: seeing and calling.

What form is vestigia, and why does it end in -a if it is plural?

Vestigia is neuter plural accusative of vestigium.

This often surprises English speakers, because -a can look singular if you are thinking only of first-declension nouns. But vestigium is a second-declension neuter noun, and neuter plurals in this declension often end in -a.

So:

• singular: vestigium = footprint / track
• plural nominative: vestigia
• plural accusative: vestigia

Since vestigia is the direct object of videt, the accusative makes sense.

Why is vestigia plural, but the verb videt is singular?