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Questions & Answers about Aura flat.
What case and number is aura?
Aura is nominative singular. In this sentence, it is the subject: the thing that is doing the action of flat.
A learner can spot this because aura is the nominative singular form of a first-declension noun. If it were a direct object, you would normally expect auram instead.
What kind of noun is aura?
Aura is a first-declension feminine noun. Its dictionary form is aura, aurae.
That means:
- nominative singular: aura
- genitive singular: aurae
So when you see aura, you should think of a first-declension noun, usually feminine, here used as the subject.
What dictionary form does flat come from?
Flat comes from the verb flō, flāre, flāvī, flātum, meaning to blow.
The most useful form for recognizing the conjugation is flāre, the infinitive. Because the infinitive ends in -āre, this is a first-conjugation verb.
What exactly does flat mean grammatically?
Flat is third-person singular present active indicative.