by Milito » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:03 pm
[quote author=Episcopus link=board=6;threadid=311;start=0#2216 date=1059511870]<br />well I presume, although I have not studied irregular verbs, in this case (ire = to go)<br /><br />eunt = they go <br />Romanes = ???<br /><br />Romani (you know romanus mariek!) ite (go!) domum, home<br /><br />"i" is single imperative "go" and to make it plural always add -te, hence "ite!" <br />[/quote]<br /><br />Hey, excellent explanation!<br /><br />[quote author=Episcopus link=board=6;threadid=311;start=0#2216 date=1059511870]<br /><br />Romanes eunt domus, is a pile of crap as domus is in nominative (should be unless it be a freak noun heh who knows it has a locative!) Romanes I don't know what he means by that and eunt would be making a statement 'they go'...<br /><br />[/quote]<br /><br />What's going on there is that every word is incorrect. "Romanes" doesn't exist - he's declining it as though it were a 3rd declension, which it isn't. Grammar goof 1. "Eunt", as you explained, is in the wrong mood entirely. Grammar goof 2. "Domus".... is nominative here (grammar goof 3), but is also one of those freak nouns you mentioned, and does have a locative! It's a feminine noun but looks like a 2nd declension masculine, except that it sometimes acts like it might have had an ugly collision with a fourth declension. (The "u" one that Benissimus likes.)<br /><br />Kilmeny<br /><br />(Go look "domus" up in a dictionary.... the result is truly awe-inspiring...!)
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