HW: pueri tam fessi erant ut totum diem dormirent

[amyshin6]

My teacher has posted some summer work and I can't understand the sentence. I've tried a good shot at translating it but it doesn't flow??

Sentence: pueri tam fessi erant ut totum diem dormirent.

My attempted translation: The boy was so tired and slept the whole day.

The word ut is tripping me up a bit, in the word list it says it's either (as) or (that, so that, in order that) and I have also used it as (to)??

Thank you

Edit: I think i've figured it out, (the boy was so tired that he slept the whole day), not completely sure why it just wasn't working in my head!

 

[rothbard]

Indeed, your second translation is correct.

 

[EstQuodFulmineIungo]

Sentence: pueri tam fessi erant ut totum diem dormirent.

(the boy was so tired that he slept the whole day

The boys were so tired that they slept the whole day

 

[rothbard]

The boys were so tired that they slept the whole day

Sorry, I'd overlooked that.

 

[Pacifica]

Sorry, I'd overlooked that.

So had I!

 

[Matthaeus]

I didn't

 

[Devenius Dulenius]

I thought it must be a plurality of boys, given it began with pueri, not puer.

 

[Tironis]

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