question about possessive adjectives
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Re: question about possessive adjectives
It should be mavis.
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Re: question about possessive adjectives
Just to expand slightly on Aquila's explanation, Latin tends to omit the possessive where it is clear from context who the possessor is (though not always). English doesn't like to do that...Aetos wrote:Looking at that sentence in Lesson 44, you could probably omit the possessive adjective. It's pretty clear that Marcus is referring to his brothers, and no one else's. Have a look at sentence I.A.3 in that lesson:
you'll notice that he omits the possessive "frater autem noluit..." (my brother however did not want to)
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Re: question about possessive adjectives
Barry, you've "latinized" me! I don't know how I'm going to fit Aetos/Aquila on to my license plate, though...Barry Hofstetter wrote:Just to expand slightly on Aquila's explanation