Ubicumque puellae conveniunt, ceterae quoque de fabulis loqui volunt.

Ubicumque means wherever or anywhere that.

It is an adverb that introduces a subordinate clause:

• Ubicumque puellae conveniunt = Wherever the girls meet

It is built from:

• ubi = where
• -cumque = ever / -soever

So it gives the idea in whatever place.

Puellae is the nominative plural form of puella, so it means girls as the subject of the verb.

Here it is the subject of conveniunt:

• puellae conveniunt = the girls meet / gather

A learner may notice that puellae can have more than one meaning depending on context:

• nominative plural = girls
• genitive singular = of the girl
• dative singular = to/for the girl

But here the verb conveniunt is 3rd person plural, so puellae must be nominative plural.

Conveniunt is from convenio, convenire.

Here it means:

• meet
• come together
• gather

It is:

• present tense
• 3rd person plural
• active voice

So:

• puellae conveniunt = the girls meet / gather

Like many Latin verbs, convenio can have slightly different meanings in different contexts, but meet or come together is the natural sense here.

Ceterae is the feminine nominative plural form of ceterus, meaning the other, the rest, or remaining.

Because it is feminine plural, it agrees with an understood feminine plural noun—here that noun is naturally puellae.

So:

• ceterae literally = the other ones
• in smoother English = the others

Latin often leaves out a noun when it is easy to understand from context.

So this part really means something like:

• ceterae [puellae] quoque... = the other girls also...

Latin often omits a noun when an adjective or pronoun makes the meaning clear.

So instead of saying:

• ceterae puellae

the sentence just says:

• ceterae

Since puellae has already appeared, a Roman reader would naturally understand:

• ceterae = the other girls

This is very common in Latin.

Quoque means also or too.

In Latin, quoque often comes after the word it emphasizes. Here it follows ceterae, so the sense is:

• ceterae quoque = the others too / the other girls also

This placement is very normal in Latin.

Compare the emphasis:

• ceterae quoque = the others too
• if Latin wanted to emphasize something else, quoque might stand elsewhere

So the word order helps show what is being marked as also.

The preposition de takes the ablative case, so:

• fabulis is ablative plural

Thus:

• de fabulis = about stories / about tales

A learner should remember:

• de + ablative

That is a fixed pattern in Latin.

Depending on context, fabulae can mean:

• stories
• tales
• fables
• sometimes even plays

But grammatically, the important point is that de requires the ablative.

Loqui is the present infinitive of loquor, meaning to speak or to talk.

It may look strange because loquor is a deponent verb.

A deponent verb:

• has passive-looking forms
• but an active meaning

So although loqui may not look like the infinitive of a regular active verb, it simply means:

• to speak
• to talk

Here:

• de fabulis loqui = to talk about stories

A deponent verb is a Latin verb that uses passive forms but has an active meaning.

Example:

• loquor looks passive in form
• but means I speak, not I am spoken

So its infinitive is:

• loqui = to speak

This is just something you have to learn with certain verbs. Other common deponent verbs include:

• sequor = I follow
• moror = I delay / linger
• hortor = I encourage

So in this sentence, loqui is perfectly normal once you know loquor is deponent.

Because volunt means they want, and verbs like want are followed by an infinitive in Latin.

So:

• volunt loqui = they want to speak

This is called a complementary infinitive.

The structure is:

• volunt = they want
• loqui = to talk

Together:

• de fabulis loqui volunt = they want to talk about stories

Volunt is from volo, velle, meaning to want.

It is:

• present tense
• 3rd person plural

So it means:

• they want

That matches the plural subject ceterae:

• ceterae ... volunt = the others want

It has two parts:

1. Ubicumque puellae conveniunt

   • Ubicumque = wherever
   • puellae = girls
   • conveniunt = meet
   • subordinate clause: Wherever girls meet

2. ceterae quoque de fabulis loqui volunt

   • ceterae = the others
   • quoque = too / also
   • de fabulis = about stories
   • loqui = to talk
   • volunt = want
   • main clause: the others also want to talk about stories

So the whole grammatical structure is:

• Wherever girls meet, the others also want to talk about stories.

Latin word order is much more flexible than English word order because Latin shows grammatical relationships mostly through endings, not position.

English depends heavily on order:

• The girls meet
• The others want to talk

Latin can move words around more freely for:

• emphasis
• style
• rhythm

For example, this sentence could be rearranged without changing the basic meaning very much:

• Ceterae quoque volunt de fabulis loqui, ubicumque puellae conveniunt.
• Ubicumque conveniunt puellae, ceterae quoque volunt de fabulis loqui.

The original order is perfectly natural, but not the only possible one.

They are similar, because both can often be translated also or even, but they are not always used in exactly the same way.

In a sentence like this, quoque is especially natural for too / also, often placed after the word it emphasizes:

• ceterae quoque = the others too

A beginner can often think of:

• quoque = too / also
• usually after the emphasized word

That is the key point here.

Yes. Ceterae is feminine plural because it refers back to puellae, which is also feminine plural.

So there is an understood agreement:

• puellae = feminine plural
• ceterae = feminine plural

Also, the verbs are plural:

• conveniunt = they meet
• volunt = they want

So the sentence is very consistent in number:

• plural subject in the first clause
• plural understood subject in the second clause

This helps confirm the grammar.