Nautae remigio navem e sinu trahunt.

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

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

Remigio is ablative singular of remigium.

Here it means something like:

• by rowing
• with oar-power
• by means of rowing

This is an ablative of means/instrument: it tells you how the action is done.

So the sailors are pulling the ship by rowing, not necessarily by literally grabbing it with their hands.

Because Latin often uses the singular for the means or method in a general sense.

Remigio does not mean one oar here. It means rowing or the act/power of rowing as a collective method.

So even though many sailors are involved, Latin can still say:

• remigio = by rowing

This is similar to English saying by force or by effort without making the word plural.

E sinu means out of the bay or from the bay/inlet.

• e / ex = out of, from
• sinu = ablative singular of sinus

The preposition e/ex takes the ablative, so sinu is ablative because it depends on e.

This phrase tells you from where the ship is being pulled.

Both e and ex mean out of / from.

Latin often uses:

• ex before vowels or sometimes for clarity/emphasis
• e before consonants

Since sinu begins with s, e sinu is perfectly normal.

In many texts, the choice between e and ex can also depend on style or sound, not just a rigid rule.

Yes, sinus has several related meanings, including:

• fold
• curve
• bosom
• bay / gulf / inlet

Here, because the sentence is about sailors and a ship, e sinu is naturally understood as out of the bay or from the inlet.

This is a good example of how Latin words often have a core image and then several related meanings depending on context.

Trahunt is present active indicative, third person plural.

It comes from traho, trahere = to drag, pull, draw.

So trahunt means:

• they pull
• they are pulling
• sometimes, depending on context, they pull habitually

Because the subject is plural (nautae), the verb is plural too.

Latin word order is much more flexible than English word order because case endings show what each word is doing.

Putting the verb at the end is very common in Latin prose, although not required.

So:

• Nautae remigio navem e sinu trahunt
• literally: Sailors by-rowing the ship out-of-the-bay pull

A more English-like order would be:

• Nautae navem e sinu remigio trahunt

But Latin often prefers to place the verb last.

Yes, to a large extent.

Because the endings show the grammatical roles:

• nautae = subject
• navem = direct object
• remigio = means
• e sinu = from where
• trahunt = verb

the sentence could be rearranged in different ways and still keep the same basic meaning.

For example:

• Navem nautae e sinu remigio trahunt
• E sinu navem nautae trahunt
• Nautae navem trahunt e sinu remigio

However, word order can affect emphasis. The original order may guide the reader through the sentence in a particular way.

Classical Latin has no articles like English the and a/an.

So:

• nautae can mean sailors or the sailors
• navem can mean a ship or the ship
• sinu can mean a bay or the bay

The context tells you which is meant.

That is why one Latin sentence can often be translated into English in more than one natural way.

Trahunt basically means pull, drag, or draw.

In this sentence, because remigio is present, the idea is probably not that the sailors are physically hauling the ship by ropes on land. Instead, the sense is more like:

• they draw the ship out of the bay by rowing
• they propel the ship out of the inlet

So trahunt can sometimes be a little broader than simple hand-pulling. Context helps determine the natural English meaning.

A very literal translation would be:

The sailors pull the ship out of the bay by rowing.

Or, preserving the Latin order more closely:

The sailors by rowing pull the ship out of the bay.

That kind of literal version is useful for seeing how each Latin word works, even if a smoother English translation might sound better.