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Translation

how, in what way

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We do not know how this was done.

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He taught how one ought to live.

Narravit .

He related how the city had been taken.

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How shall I answer you?

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Qualiter is the adverb of qualis, "of what kind", and means "how, in what manner". Classical prose prefers quomodo or a plain ut and leaves qualiter to later writers. This corpus is late and ecclesiastical, so it turns up constantly - and above all as a chapter heading. Qualiter fratres dormiant, "how the brothers are to sleep", is exactly the kind of rubric the Benedictine Rule is built out of, and a monastic customary can run to a hundred of them.

In an indirect question it takes the subjunctive, as any interrogative word does. Its formal correlative is taliter, "in such a way", though in practice sic does that job and taliter is rare enough to look affected.

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This word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 2: qualiter, legatus, consto and 7 more words.