Breakdown of Qui libros legunt, facilius discunt.
Questions & Answers about Qui libros legunt, facilius discunt.
Qui is a relative pronoun. Here it means who or, more naturally in English, those who.
In this sentence, qui libros legunt means those who read books. That whole part acts like the subject of discunt.
So the structure is:
- qui libros legunt = those who read books
- facilius discunt = learn more easily
Not exactly, but Latin often leaves the noun understood.
So qui by itself can mean:
- those who
- the ones who
- people who
Latin does this very naturally. English sometimes needs to add a word like those or people, but Latin does not.
Because it refers to more than one person, and the verbs show that too:
- legunt = they read
- discunt = they learn
Since the people are plural, the relative pronoun is plural as well:
- singular: qui would not work here
- plural: qui =