Discipula sententiam iterum describere cogitur, quia sententia nondum integra est.

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Breakdown of Discipula sententiam iterum describere cogitur, quia sententia nondum integra est.

• discipula: the female student
• quia: because
• iterum: again

Questions & Answers about Discipula sententiam iterum describere cogitur, quia sententia nondum integra est.

Why is discipula in this form?

Discipula is nominative singular feminine, so it is the subject of the main clause.

• discipula = the female student / schoolgirl
• It matches the verb cogitur = is forced

A learner may also notice that Latin uses different endings to show the job of a word in the sentence. Here, -a shows the nominative singular form of this first-declension noun.

Why is sententiam spelled with -am?

Because sententiam is accusative singular. It is the direct object of describere.

So the structure is:

• discipula = subject
• sententiam = the thing being rewritten / copied out
• describere = to rewrite / copy out
• cogitur = is forced

The accusative ending tells you that the sentence itself is what the student must rewrite.

Why is there another sententia later, but this time without -m?

The two forms have different grammatical roles:

• sententiam = accusative, object of describere
• sententia = nominative, subject of est

So Latin repeats the same noun in two different cases because it is doing two different jobs: