<br /><br />Right. Your Ablative of Cause is basically an Ablative of Means.<br /><br /><br />#5 Our whole village is suffering for lack of food.<br /> Noster tötus vïcus ïnfïrmus ïnopiä cibï est.<br />(inopia cibi=ABL)<br /><br />Is it correct to use the ABL here without any preposition? I think this falls under the Ablative of Cause which doesn't require a preposition.<br />
<br /><br />Yes<br /><br /><br />#6 The people are already hastening to the other town.<br /> Populus iam ad aliud oppidum properat.<br />(ad aliud=ACC)<br /><br />Is it correct to use ad and the ACC with properat?
<br />I feel like I can't get a handle on which case to use with which prepositions.<br />Do a/ab, apud, cum, de, e/ex, and in take the ABL? ???<br />While ad takes the ACC? ???<br /><br /><br />AB + Abl.<br />CUM + Abl.<br />DE + Abl.<br />EX + Abl.<br /><br />APUD + Acc.<br />AD + Acc.<br /><br />IN + Abl. = in (situation)<br />IN + Acc. = into (motion into sth)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I would say : Apud Romanos nulla est inopia frumenti<br /><br />Vale<br />#7 Among the Romans (there) is no lack of grain.<br /> Apud Romanï sunt nüllia inopia frumentï.<br /><br />
<br /><br />Oh I see. Since Apud should be followed by the ACC, it's Apud Romanos.... I hadn't known that, which is why I used the NOM Romani.<br /><br />I was going to ask why you used est, but I see the subject "Among the Romans" is considered singular. I was thrown off by "Romans" and thought the sentence was plural. How do you know where to put nulla? I would want to put it next to inopia.<br /><br />I would say : Apud Romanos nulla est inopia frumenti
<br /><br />"Among the Romans" isn't subject, nulla inopia frumenti is subject. That's singular, and that's why it's est, not sunt.<br /><br />Vale.<br /><br />Ptolemaios<br /><br />Oh I see. Since Apud should be followed by the ACC, it's Apud Romanos.... I hadn't known that, which is why I used the NOM Romani.<br /><br />I was going to ask why you used est, but I see the subject "Among the Romans" is considered singular. I was thrown off by "Romans" and thought the sentence was plural. How do you know where to put nulla? I would want to put it next to inopia.<br /><br /><br />I would say : Apud Romanos nulla est inopia frumenti
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