Best way to say "during"

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Best way to say "during"

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Quid modo optimus est dicere latine "during those years?"

"inter hos annos"

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his/illis annis, in his/illis annis, per hos/illos annos

maybe these? // fortassè haec?: inter hos/illos annos, sub his/illis annis, super his/illis annis
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Salve Adriane!

Intellego verbum exactum "during" latine non exstare.

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Count ourselves lucky when we can take Latin and English words as exact synonyms.
In numerum fortunatorum sumus cum verba latina et anglica ut synonyma exacta intelleguntur.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.

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adrianus wrote:In numerum fortunatorum sumus cum verba latina et anglica ut synonyma exacta intelleguntur.
Nec 'in numero', Adriane?

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I guess that just goes to show that even the advanced among us can still make basic mistakes... :lol:
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Modo rogo, care Furry, et nescio ipse :wink: . Forsitan doctus Adrianus bene dixit vos inlaturos esse in numerum illum fortunatorum, si quidem exacta synonyma inveniatis.

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It's easy for me to say I made a mistake because I make so many, but when I wrote "In numerum fortunatorum sumus" I thought I was using "in" + acc. + "esse" to mean "we enter into the number of the fortunate when". I saw it before in Ainsworth but can't find the reference (unless I'm again making a mistake) and know it from "in mentem mihi est". L&S calls it a "pregnant construction". See http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... ntry%3Din1

Facile est mihi dicere me erravisse , toties erravi, et toties futurò errabo. Sic autem in scribendo, in mentem mihi erat constructionem quandam anteà apud Ainsworth visam nunc perditam (nisi iterùm fallor) aemulare, quae constructio apud L&S gravida vocatur.
L&S, [url]http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Din1[/url] wrote:7. Sometimes with esse, habere, etc., in is followed by the acc. (constr. pregn.), to indicate a direction, aim, purpose, etc. (but v. Madvig. Gram. § 230, obs. 2, note, who regards these accusatives as originating in errors of pronunciation); so, esse in potestatem alicujus, to come into and remain in one's power: esse in mentem alicui, to come into and be in one's mind: esse in conspectum, to appear to and be in sight: esse in usum, to come into use, be used, etc.
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Well, shoot. You may be right. This language has no end of crazy little features, does it? :lol: I'd thought for sure it should be ablative because it could be read as "We are among the fortunate when a Latin word and an English one can be understood as exact synonyms." But I'd never heard of the accusative being used that way before.
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So much can be accomplished with ropes and pullies.
Tanta per usum funium trochlearumque fieri possunt.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.

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