Saturday, December 24, 2016

Learning Latin with Pope Francis - December 23, 2016

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December 23, 2016



Here's a literal translation of the Latin: The Lord becomes human in order to walk with us everyday.

And here's how the grammar of this Latin tweet works:


Latin
English
Parsing
Grammar Points
Dominus
The Lord
nom. sing. masc. noun
Dominus, Domini
homo
human
nom. sing. com. noun
homo, hominis
fit
becomes
3rd pers. sing. pres. ind. verb
fīō, fierī, factus sum
ut
in order that
conj.
cotidie
everyday
adv.
nobiscum
with us
abl. pl. pronoun
nos, nostri; enclitic preposition
ambulet
he may walk
3rd pers. sing. pres. act. subj. verb
ambulo, ambulare, ambulavi, ambulatus

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