Help with pronunciation please!
I don't understand the difference between the pronunciation of the short "a" in the singular nominative case and the long "a" in the singular ablative case. Can you help me with this? TIA!
Cindy
I wasn't aware
there was supposed to be a difference. I've always taken them to be pronounced the same, since they are spelled the same.
I thought the nominative and ablative were pronounced with a short a and the genitive and dative with a long a.
While we're on the subject, is dative pronounced dah-tive or date-ive?
Heather
Mama to Mary (9), Ian (5), and Alistair (3.5)
Thanks, Drew.
Dh studied German, and he pronounces all the cases with a German accent. We've been going around and around on that one. :)
Heather
Mama to Mary (9), Ian (5), and Alistair (3.5)
That *would* be confusing!
In German, the accent is on the last syllable - so, yes, different! :)
-D.
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I don't make any distinction
I don't make any distinction between these. Interested to hear what others do!
-Drew
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"I wonder how far I shall carry any opinion with me when I plead for active effort to revive the general use of Latin?" - Hilaire Belloc
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