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How to ask a question in LATIN.

• voice
• You could raise your

E.g. Tu pecuniam debes?

• You could use a question word, such as
• QUIS - who
• QUID - what
• UBI - where
• CUR why
• QUO MODO - how

• Or you could add ne to the first word of the
  sentence
• eg. Placetne tibi?

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There are two types of question
DIRECT QUESTIONS
INDIRECT QUESTIONS
REPORTED SPEECH
Mr Mossman asked who had eaten all of the pies.
Who ate all the pies?
BOB ASKED WHO ATE THE GERBIL.
IN LATIN THE VERB GOES INTO THE SUBJUNCTIVE.
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HOW TO SPOT AN INDIRECT QUESTION
Bobus rogavit quis pecuniam invenisset.
Look a questioning verb!
Look a verb in the subjunctive.
Look a question word.
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A few details

• 1) NUM in an indirect question means WHETHER
  not surely not
• e.g. senem rogavi num fratrem meum vidisset.
• 2) When there are two alternatives look out for
  utruman whether or
• femina servum rogavit utrum malus an stultus
  esset.

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What does a subjunctive look like again?

• IMPERFECT
• porta rem
• porta res
• porta ret
• portaremus
• porta retis
• porta rent

• PLUPERFECT
• porta vissem
• porta visses
• porta visset
• porta vissemus
• porta vissetis
• porta vissent

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The imperfect subjunctive ofTO BE
Essem I was Esses you were Esset- he
was Essemus we were Essetis you were Essent
they were