quid figis

• whom do you fix?
• why do you affix?
• Why does he affix?
• When does he affix?

nescis tu populum loqui

• The people does not know how to speak
• You don't know how to address the people.
• Don't you know that the people speak
• Don't the people say that you don't know

quod tacet ille

• what he stays silent on
• because he cannot speak
• what they say he remains silent on
• What he says the he says

dicis bellas puellas ardere

• The pretty girls say you love them
• You say that the pretty girls burn
• The pretty girls burn what you say
• You burn for the pretty girls

faciem natantis habes

• The swimmer has your face
• You have a swimmer's face
• The swimmer faces you
• You swim up to the face

natantis

• noun
• verb
• adjective
• participle

amore tui

• your love
• love for you

sub aqua natantis

• of one swimming underwater
• under the swimmer in the water
• under the water he swims
• they swim under the water

dicis amore tui bellas ardere puellas   why is ardere infinitive?

• indirect speech after dicis
• stands in for imperative
• shows the idea of burning
• shows action prior to dicis

how do we know that dicis means "you say"?

• There is an -i before the -s
• There is an -s after the -i
• the verb dico always means you speak.
• there is no way to now for sure.