Usages of praepositio
“‘In’ praepositio est; interdum accusativum habet, interdum ablativum, ut iam scitis,” dicit magistra.
“‘In’ is a preposition; sometimes it takes the accusative, sometimes the ablative, as you already know,” says the teacher.
Puer quaerit utrum praepositio “cum” ablativum semper habeat necne, et magistra ridens dicit eam semper ablativum habere.
The boy asks whether the preposition “with” always takes the ablative or not, and the teacher, laughing, says that it always takes the ablative.
Post lectionem puella domi matri narrat se hodie didicisse cur quaedam praepositiones accusativum, aliae ablativum, quaedam utrumque accipiant, et cur idem verbum in indicativo aut in coniunctivo alium sensum habeat.
After the lesson the girl tells her mother at home that today she learned why some prepositions take the accusative, others the ablative, some both, and why the same verb has a different sense in the indicative or in the subjunctive.
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