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Learn Hardcore Latin: alter - the other

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 46
/alter

alter

Word

alter

Meaning

the other

Part of speech

pronoun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of alter

Pater dicit se candidatum prudentem alteri praeferre, quia bonus magistratus salutem civitatis spectare debet.

Father says that he prefers the prudent candidate to the other, because a good magistrate ought to look to the safety of the state.

Alter librum legit, alter in commentario scribit.

One reads the book, the other writes in the notebook.

Alter ad forum ambulat, alter domi manet.

One walks to the forum, the other stays at home.

In hac historia una persona prudentissima est, altera autem minus prudens.

In this story one character is very wise, but the other is less wise.

Magistra postea quaerit cur unus liber a bibliopola carius vendi videretur quam alter.

Afterward the teacher asks why one book seemed to be sold by the bookseller at a higher price than the other.

Societas inter duas vicinas bona est, quia altera alteri in rebus difficilibus auxilio est.

The partnership between two neighboring women is good, because one is a help to the other in difficult matters.

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