passuum. ran for two miles herī cucurrī duō mīlia “I yesterday.” passuum = acc. extent of space duō mīlia passuum = partitive genitive run for three passuum. hodiē cucurram tria mīlia “I will miles today.” passuum. I will crās cucurrerō quīnque mīlia “Tomorrow, have run for five miles.” A special note on “mileage” ONE MILE = thousand = mille “a paces” passūs this is an indeclinable adjective modifying the mille plural noun passūs you a word for mille already don’t need “one” because means “one thousand” MILES = of = passuum “thousands paces” mīlia declinable noun (3rd declension, neuter plural mīlia noun) with partitive genitive passuum 2 miles = of = duo “two thousands paces” mīlia passuum 3 miles = thousands of = tria “three paces” mīlia passuum 4 miles = thousands of = quattuor “four paces” mīlia pasuum 100 miles = hundred thousands of = “one paces” centum passuum mīlia The key to figuring out how to in Latin is to manage “miles” memorize the literal translation of the two idioms: thousand (NOT genitive) “a paces” thousands OF (genitive) “(number) paces”
herī cucurrī duō mīlia passuum. “I ran for two miles yesterday.” duō mīlia passuum = acc. extent of space passuum = partitive genitive hodiē cucurram tria mīlia passuum. “I will run for three miles today.” crās cucurrerō quīnque mīlia passuum. “Tomorrow, I will have run for five miles.” A special note on “mileage” ONE MILE = “a thousand paces” = mille passūs this is an indeclinable adjective mille modifying the plural noun passūs you don’t need a word for “one” because mille already means “one thousand” MILES = “thousands of paces” = mīlia passuum declinable noun mīlia (3rd declension, neuter plural noun) with partitive genitive passuum 2 miles = “two thousands of paces” = duo mīlia passuum 3 miles = “three thousands of paces” = tria mīlia passuum 4 miles = “four thousands of paces” = quattuor mīlia pasuum 100 miles = “one hundred thousands of paces” = centum mīlia passuum The key to figuring out how to manage “miles” in Latin is to memorize the literal translation of the two idioms: “a thousand paces” (NOT genitive) “(number) thousands OF paces” (genitive)
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