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Learn Hardcore Latin: tenere - to keep

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 43
/tenere

tenere

Word

tenere

Meaning

to keep

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

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.

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