Si quis te quaeret..

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Civis

  • Civis

Location:
Brasilia
Is this construction correct?


Si quis te quaeret quot annos natum [esse], dic enim ei te sex et triginta annos natum (esse.)


Gratias vobis ago, commilitones Latini!!
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
It is not correct.

Correction:

Si quis a te (or abs te) quaeret quot sis annos natus (indirect question), dic enim (this word makes no sense here) ei te sex et triginta annos natum (esse).

To avoid repetition, you could shorten that last part to just dic ei sex et triginta.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Natus (in quot sis annos natus) is nominative (in agreement with the implied subject of sis). Indirect questions have a subject in the nominative and a verb in the subjunctive, unlike indirect statements, which have a subject in the accusative and a verb in the infinitive.
 
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