[Sca-cooks] too cool sig line-

[Antonia Calvo]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>>>>> I was trying to translate "Better see what's in the freezer..." back into Latin...
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>>>> Debeo videre quid in capsa frigorifica est. (I think)
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>>> Did you do something to the verb form there? Are you sure you want est? Don't you just use something like in capsis frigorifica?
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>> I don't think you can just lose est in this format. Capsa frigorifica is first declension, so, handily enough, the ablative is 'capsa frigorifica'.  The verb forms are <Debeo> (present indicative, I must) <videre> (infinitive, to look) and <est> (present indicative, is).
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> Basically I was thinking of "in the freezer" as a functioning adjective, hence the "sis" ending.
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Nope-- in Latin it has to be in + ablative.  Even if it were an 
adjective, it's still a first declension feminine singular, so it can't 
have an -is ending in any case.


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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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