Questions tagged [aspect]
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A process now in progress, with no agent
Suppose I want to say:
Maybe your appetite is a sign of returning health.
One possibility:
Fortasse orexis tua sānitātem portendit revertentem.
I'm not sure that revertor carries this metaphor as ...
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edere panem vs. comedere panem
Consider the following minimal pair:
edere panem 'to eat (the) bread'
comedere panem 'to eat up the bread'
When a resultative prefix is present (e.g. com- in comedere), panem is necessarily understood ...
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What are the different ways to express present continuous tense in Latin?
Latin doesn't have present continuous tense. How to express present continuous tense?
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