Salvete!
Ok, moving along to Wheelock Chapter 36.
I have a pretty good understand in the Jussive Noun Clause.
But I just want to check to see if I understand "fio."
Are these translations correct:
"Something is happening."=Aliquid fit.
"Something happened"=Aliquid factum est.
"She becomes angry."=Ea irata fit.
"I want this to happen."=Volo hoc fieri/volo ut hoc fiat.
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Help with the verb "fio"
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Re: Help with the verb "fio"
Look good to me. As you're examples illustrate, this verb usally occurs in the 3rd person. I find that "fit" can be fairly idiomatic in some phrases, like "fit fragor" means "there was a thunder-peal."
It can also mean "to become [something]." In Ovid (where the fragor line is from too) you get "fit lupus" to describe how Lycaon suddenly transforms into a wolf. No surprise, you see it a lot in the Metamorphoses
It can also mean "to become [something]." In Ovid (where the fragor line is from too) you get "fit lupus" to describe how Lycaon suddenly transforms into a wolf. No surprise, you see it a lot in the Metamorphoses
"Ut lenita dea est, vultus capit illa priores
fitque, quod ante fuit: fugiunt e corpore saetae,
cornua decrescunt, fit luminis artior orbis"
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Re: Help with the verb "fio"
It also functions as the passive of "facio" so it can have a passive sense as well -- not the best example, but there's "ab exploratoribus certior factus est" = "he was informed by the scouts".
Edit: Nevermind. I misread the original post and thought you were asking for all the uses of "fio", which would take a while to list.
Edit: Nevermind. I misread the original post and thought you were asking for all the uses of "fio", which would take a while to list.