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Originally posted by Galadria:
Children, children. Lioness, it is Sum unam leonam. Object takes accusative case, sweetie. (Hugs for wanting to learn Latin)
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Actually,
esse used as a copulative verb (hey, keep your mind out of the gutter) doesn't take an accusative because it isn't really a direct object; instead, it takes a complement in the same case as its subject (same goes for Greek). "I am a/the lioness" would be "Sum leaena" or "Leaena sum" (a form of "unus" isn't necessary in Latin, unless you want to be emphatic: "I am ONE lioness").
[edit: I looked up "lioness" in the dictionary and it's either "lea" or "leaena". "Leaena" is taken from the Greek, while "lea" is from the Latin.]
[ 04-24-2002, 12:47 PM: Message edited by: jtqbe ]