A quick drink

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Hello all,

Just a quick check:

‘Post cenam multum vini bibebatur’.

“After dinner, much wine was drunk”.

Just querying… I’m trying to nail down the case of each and every noun I look at for practice. Here I have ‘multum’ as the nominative singular, and hence the 3rd person passive imperfect for ‘bibebatur’. However, I can only see that ‘vini’ is genitive singular. Am I correct in that this is literally “after dinner, much of wine was drunk”? Or have I gone wrong?

Thanks in advance!

~RP~

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Hi. you have got it right. This kind of genitive is called a “partitive genitive”. See 346 here http://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/genitive#partitive-genitive.

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Thank you! And cheers for the link.

Much obliged :smiley:

~RP~