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Now, those two explanations make sense about the "missa" part, but I still don't understand the "est" part. If it's not passive perfect, then it's a subjective noun and a third person verb.
Put another way, if you're saying, "Socrates is a man" in Latin, what case would "man" be in? Well, "man" is nominative. Actually Man in that circumstance would be the DO of is, so its not the nominative. Nominative is the subject. Socrates est virum. ( I think, its been ahwile ....). Lol I will feel really dumb if I turn out to be wrong haha.
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Personally, I would say Socrates virum est.
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GM - sorry, but the verb 'sum' does not take a direct object. It takes a complement, which goes in the same case as the subject, hence Nominative. The verb 'sum' is not perceived as an action upon an object external to the subject, hence it doesn't take any sort of object.
Socrates vir est.
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I seem to remember always mess up on that in Latin class haha. Sorry.
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Thanks, Edward! That's what I've been missing!!  I forgot about nominative case, and was thinking that the verb would be dative.
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