Infans aquam e vase fragili effundit, et mater eum monet.

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Breakdown of Infans aquam e vase fragili effundit, et mater eum monet.

• mater: the mother
• aqua: the water
• eum: him

Questions & Answers about Infans aquam e vase fragili effundit, et mater eum monet.

Why is infans the subject of the first clause?

Because infans is in the nominative singular, the case normally used for the subject.

A few helpful details:

• infans is a 3rd-declension noun.
• Its nominative singular is infans.
• The verb effundit is 3rd person singular, so it matches a singular subject: the infant.

In the second clause, mater is likewise nominative singular and is the subject of monet.

Why is aquam in the accusative?

Because aquam is the direct object of effundit.

The verb effundere means to pour out / spill, and the thing being poured out is put in the accusative case. So:

• aqua = water
• aquam = water as the direct object

In other words, the infant is doing the action, and the water is what gets spilled.

Why does the sentence say e vase?

Because e/ex means out of or from within, and it regularly takes the ablative case.

Here the water is coming out of the inside of the vessel, so e vase is exactly what you would expect.

• e/ex = out of, from
• vase = ablative singular of