Impurum
Nescio
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
"Impurum"... I'm not familiar with. Any idea what these are supposed to mean? When you say use as a noun, is it in a Latin phrase? Because if they aren't in Latin anymore, you can pretty much do what you like.
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I want to combine them to refer to a group of people who fail to recognize that they are now impure.
I'd go with "ignorantes impuritatum suarum" which means "[those] ignorant of their own impurity."
This is something others call them right? Maybe you could use the longer phrase for "formalities" and just use "ignorantes" as an informal reference.
Likewise, you could have "nescii impuritatum [suarum]", which means roughly the same as my previous suggestion.
For adjectives modifying a noun, you need to know the noun's gender and declension... but:
- In most cases if the noun begins in -us(m)/-a(f)/-um(n) and the adjective is given with ending -us, then change the adjective ending to the noun ending (ie- simia mala = evil monkey)
- if your noun/adjective needs to be possessive, change the ending to -i(m)/-ae(f)/-i(n) (ie- simia malae = monkey of evil)
- The adjective follows the noun
- plural is -i(m)/-ae(f)/-a(n)
- plural possessive is -orum(m)/-arum(f)/-orum(n)
- if your noun/adjective ends in -is, then possessive is the same
- plural of -is is -es(mf)/-(i)a(n)
- plural possessive of -is is -(i)um
For verbs, you need to know the conjugation to know the infinitive
- verbs ending in -io have infinitive -ire (ie- scio => scire (to know))
- verbs ending in -eo have infinitive -ere (ie- maneo => manere (to stay))
- verbs ending in -or have infinitives -i (ie- nascor => nasci (to be born))
- verbs in passive tense are as above
now, it's much more complicated than that, but that should serve as a good base. I could go on and on but you get the idea... I hope
I think Impura Nesciti might suit you better. Or Nesciti impura, depending on whether the impurity or the failure to realize it is more important. My memory of Latin's word order is a little shaky. I think it might go Verb Object Subject. I like the participle better than the infinitive, since it behaves like a noun which I think is was your original desire. "-que" means and, if you want to throw it in there. I'm working from the assumption that Impurum is a neuter singular nominative, so the plural would be Impura. I forget now whether it would be okay to make the ending of the participle match the ending of the noun.
In Arabic, they inflect the verbs for gender, and they have Single, dual and plural. It's a flippin' nightmare. And each verb can have up to 12 nonconcatenative "forms" that incorporate the ideas of mood, intensity, and agentivity. I think tense was something else. But it's amazing how much you can not learn in 3 years of college study. In everyday speech they just put the verb first so that none of the agreement applies