perfect passive construction
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perfect passive construction
In a perfect passive verb construction, where you would have for example, "amatus est", are the two words ALWAYS adjacent, or can additional words/modifiers intervene? <br /><br />Thanks,<br />Mark D
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Re:perfect passive construction
Mostly they are together, not always.<br /><br />For exemple; Are you shaved? = Tonsusne es?
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Re:perfect passive construction
<br />Are they ever reversed, eg, "es tonsus"?
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Re:perfect passive construction
Yes that's possible; <br /><br />The same question, can also be; Esne tonsus?
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Re:perfect passive construction
They often seperated the two parts in poetry, making it difficult to translate like
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Re:perfect passive construction
Perfect participles are usually, for all intents and purposes, just adjectives. You can mix them all over the place so long as they agree with the various attributes of the noun which they modify.
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae