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@QPaysTaxes I could say the same about you.
But this is actually my true home.
I was born here, SE-born.
When you were a little calf.
@QPaysTaxes Only as a substitute! There was nothing else!
Figments, even. How disgusting.
See, you're fighting my judgement of you.
Whereas I am Pax herself.
Don't be stupid, you're smart.
Don't ascribe to stupidity what can be ascribed to...
@QPaysTaxes Utinam succedas!
Obsessing over wolves, I hope.
Although it probably means something like sitting in their path...
No, it is a gerund in the ablative, not a gerundive (so no "having").
> 3. To have one's eye upon, to watch closely, be on the look-out for:
Obsedendum est tibi is a gerundive.
For years I thought that was a gerund, but no.
A gerund is like the infinitive, except that it's declensible.
Facere "to do / doing" → faciendo "by doing" (abl.).
A gerundive is an adjective. It has to agree with a noun (or with implied "id" or something as in "faciendum est tibi" 'it must be done by you → you must do it').
A gerundive normally has a sense of obligation.
Except in gerundive constructions.
Which is a bit weird, bu the.
You could say a gerundive has a sense of obligation in the nom. and acc., but not in the gen., dat., abl.
Rosis carpendis Eurydice capta est.
While picking roses, E. was captured.
It is a kind of abl. abs.
But they probably said in your book that only participles are used in the abl. abs.?
I never learned Latin in English.
Always German, Dutch, or French.
So that term was new to me.
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