How do you translate "why are you not preparing to return to the city?" in Latin?

Question

i basically need to know how to say "are you", because i alreasy know how to "you are"

Answer 1

It's the same. In Latin, word order doesn't change in questions. Either a question word (cur, quis, qui, quid, quando, nonne, num) or the enclitic -ne is all you need to make a sentence a question.

So, assuming you haven't learned participles yet:

You are not preparing to return to the city. =
Ad urbem redire non paras.

Why are you not preparing to return to the city? =
Cur ad urbem redire non paras?

If you want to ask, "Are you not preparing to return to the city?," that would be:

Tune ad urbem redire non paras?
("Tune" = "tu" + "-ne")

The -ne must go at the end of the first word, which puts and emphasis on that word. So the above sentence is sort of like, "Are YOU not preparing...?" Your teacher can explain it better :-)

Answer 2

Cur non paras ad urbem redire. (That's you, sing; paratis for you, plural)

Don't understand the 'are you' vs. 'you are'. In Latin, both are the same.