Can anyone translate this latin sentence, dd doesn't understand her homework!

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and neither do I!

Cassia et Claudia filiae feminarum sunt.

If you can say why that would help dd also!
Thanks for help

Cassia and Claudia are the daughters of the woman.

I think it's "Cassia and Claudia are the daughters of the women / women's daughters".
If I'm honest I'm not 100% convinced about the "feminarum" bit but it's the best I can do!

Cassia and Claudia are the woman's daughters.

Cassia and Claudia are the daughters of the women.

Filiae = nominative plural
Feminarum = genitive plural
Sunt = third person plural, present tense, verb "to be"

It's definitely plural ie women not woman

Sunt means are (it’s a plural form). Verbs go at the end of sentences in Latin. Feminarum is genitive (of) plural of femina (woman). Filiae is daughters.

Cassia and Claudia are the daughters of the women :)

Disclaimer I don't know any Latin...

But to me it looks like it is 'Cassia and Claudia are female siblings'. No idea why. Just does.

Or what they all said ^^

Sorry, of the women, not woman!

Sunt is the "they" form of the verb, giving you "are"

Filiae is plural, so gives you daughters.

Feminarum I got as female, and presumably its case shows it's the possessive, though my memory doesn't stretch that far to be specific!

Sunt is the "they" form of the verb, giving you "are"

Filiae is plural, so gives you daughters.

Feminarum I got as female, and presumably its case shows it's the possessive, though my memory doesn't stretch that far to be specific!

They are definitely not siblings

Omnia scit rete matrum!

Gosh Filiae is first declension feminine. Feminarum is plural genitive - women. Sunt - third person present tense active - are

Literally means daughters women are. So yes, C and C are the women’s daughters.

Thank you everyone very much so it looks like Cassia and Claudia are the daughters of the women.

So dd now gets that that the genitive "of the women" bit
but why is "filiae" nominitive? Are Cassia and Claudia, their actual names not the nominative? But filiae also is nominitive

Cassia and Claudia are the women's daughters.

If it helps I think feminarum is the plural of the genetive case (genetive is belonging to, like David's dog = the dog that belongs to David/the dog of David) . If it was singular it would be the daughters of the woman, but because it is plural it is daughters of the women but that sounds clunky in English so change it to the women's daughters)

Yes it’s what’s called an appositive noun phrase:

Summary from a grammar website:

“An appositive is a noun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause which sits next to another noun to rename it or to describe it in another way. (The word appositive comes from the Latin for to put near.)”

For example:

“Don't leave your shoes there, or my dog, Ollie, will munch them.”

(In this example, the appositive is Ollie. It is in apposition (as it's called) to my dog.)

You can have more than one noun (or something in the nominative case) in one Latin sentence

Their names are nominative first declention ( mensa, mensa, mensam, etc)

'to be' takes the nominative in Latin & English.

This makes me want to appreciate my Latin classes more than I did at the time.

Why are things that bored me at school so much more interesting now?

From what I remember (from a long time ago) when we are told what something is in Latin, the new noun takes the nominative and is called the complement.

Just looked it up 'The nominative is used rather than the accusative because the verb 'to be' is telling us more about the same person rather than describing something done to someone else.' (Latin to GCSE)

OK, wonderful thank you so much
We get it now, with thanks to Ollie the dog

And the others which we just read