Nautae remigio navem e sinu trahunt.

the sailor

Breakdown of Nautae remigio navem e sinu trahunt.

• navis: the ship
• trahere: to pull
• e: out of

Questions & Answers about Nautae remigio navem e sinu trahunt.

Why is nautae plural, and what case is it?

Nautae is nominative plural, so it means sailors and serves as the subject of the sentence.

The dictionary form is nauta, nautae = sailor. Even though it ends in -a in the singular and belongs to the first declension, it is masculine because it refers to a male person by default.

So here:

• nautae = the sailors
• it is plural because the verb trahunt is also plural: they drag / they pull

What case is navem, and why?

Navem is accusative singular.

It is the direct object of trahunt (they pull / drag), so it answers the question what are the sailors pulling?

• navis = ship
• navem = ship in the accusative singular

So:

• nautae = subject
• navem = direct object

What does remigio mean here, and what case is it?

Remigio is ablative singular of remigium.

Here it means something like: