Related uses of the relative and subjunctive
After est / sunt
sunt ei qui credant
there are
those who believe him
To mark a characteristic, after another noun / pronoun etc.
This can work:
- as a statement with a pronoun: is est qui librum scribethe is the sort of man who would write a book
- as a statement with a noun: Cicero est qui librum scribetCicero is the sort of man who would write a book
- -as a negative statement: nemo est qui librum scribetThere is nobody who would / will write a book
- as a question: quis est qui librum scribet?Who is there who would write a book?
- with a precise antecedent adjective: solus est qui librum scribetHe alone is the kind of man who would write a book
As a simple replacement
nemo est tam stultus
qui id non intellegat
Nobody is so
stupid that he would not understand this
