Latin · Chapter 11 · Lesson 4 · Grammar primer
The Ave Maria, word by word
Gratia plena and the ablative of fullness, participles doing the blessing, and where the familiar English wording departs from the Latin.
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Gratia plena is an ablative
Full OF grace, says the English - but the Latin is gratia plena, an ablative of that with which something is filled. Plenus takes the ablative (or genitive) rather than a preposition, so the phrase is a two-word lesson in how Latin does with endings what English does with of.
gratia plena - filled with grace
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