An indirect statement reports what someone says, thinks, or knows: "I think that Mārcus is here", "she knows that the boys are sleeping".
Can recognize Simple indirect statement recognition in a short Latin prompt
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He says that the girl is coming.
I think that you are mistaken.
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An indirect statement reports what someone says, thinks, or knows: "I think that Mārcus is here", "she knows that the boys are sleeping". Latin builds this very differently from English, and recognizing the pattern early prevents a lot of misreading. At A1 you only need to spot it, not produce it.
The recipe has two parts. After a verb of saying or thinking (such as dico "I say", putō "I think", scio "I know"), Latin puts:
Examples:
For English speakers: your instinct is to look for the word "that" and then a normal subject-verb clause. Latin gives you neither. There is no word for "that" here, and the reported subject wears an accusative ending (Marcum, puellam, Romam) that makes it look like a direct object. The trick is: when a verb of thinking or saying is followed by an accusative noun plus an infinitive, translate the pair as "that [noun] [verbs]". So puellam dormire becomes "that the girl is sleeping", not "the girl to sleep".
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Вправи для практикиHe says that the girl is coming.
There is no word for 'that'. The subject goes into the accusative and the verb into the infinitive - the accusative and infinitive construction.
I think that you are mistaken.
Te is accusative, errare infinitive. A word-for-word rendering gives nonsense; the whole clause has to be rebuilt.
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