Breakdown of Bona disciplina magnum commodum discipulis dat.
Questions & Answers about Bona disciplina magnum commodum discipulis dat.
Because bona is describing disciplina, and Latin adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case.
- disciplina is feminine, singular, nominative
- so the adjective must also be feminine, singular, nominative
- the feminine nominative singular form of bonus, -a, -um is bona
So bona disciplina means good discipline.
You know from both its case and the verb ending.
- disciplina is in the nominative singular, which is the case usually used for the subject
- dat means he/she/it gives, so the verb is 3rd person singular
- disciplina matches that singular verb
So disciplina is the thing doing the action: good discipline gives.
Because it is the direct object of dat.
The verb dare means to give, and what is being given here is :