Usages of tenere
Quo diligentius discipuli lectionem audiunt, eo facilius vocabula novi auctoris memoria tenent.
The more carefully the students listen to the lesson, the more easily they keep the new author’s words in memory.
Magistra ordinem in schola tenet.
The teacher keeps order in the school.
Scribendo in commentario et verba difficilia in margine ponendo, Lucia verba nova memoria tenet.
By writing in her notebook and placing difficult words in the margin, Lucia keeps the new words in memory.
Sedecim verba nova in hoc libello sunt, et magistra vult ut discipuli sedecim ex eis memoria teneant.
There are sixteen new words in this little book, and the teacher wants the students to keep sixteen of them in memory.
Magistra dicit hoc capitulum lente legendum esse, quia verba novi libelli memoria tenendi causa in margine scribuntur.
The teacher says that this chapter must be read slowly, because the words of the new little book are written in the margin for the sake of keeping them in memory.
Dux prudens ordinem tenet et milites ante proelium instruit.
The wise leader keeps order and prepares the soldiers before battle.
Sic discipuli paulatim discunt non solum verba memoria tenere, sed etiam intellegere cur unus casus potius quam alius, cur singularis potius quam pluralis, et cur indicativus potius quam imperativus in unaquaque sententia ponatur.
Thus the students gradually learn not only to keep words in memory, but also to understand why one case rather than another, why singular rather than plural, and why the indicative rather than the imperative is used in each sentence.
Sic et verba nova et res novae memoria tenentur, cum discipuli non solum in schola sedeant, sed etiam oculis suis quercus, pinos, hirundines, et formicas observent.
Thus both new words and new things are kept in memory, when students not only sit in school, but also observe with their own eyes oaks, pines, swallows, and ants.
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