Question:
Help with Latin translations? (just 2 sentences)?
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2012-01-03 21:37:40 UTC
Hi :) i need help with these two latin translations. could you also tell me (you don't have to) how you translated them? they're the only ones giving me trouble: (please no google translate)


multi nuntio epistulas dederant.

paravistine, mi filia, epistulam.

Thank you in advance :)
Four answers:
anonymous
2012-01-03 23:28:30 UTC
multi nuntio epistulas dederant.

Many people had given letters to the messenger

multi = many (subject, nominative masculine plural of multus, much)

nuntio = to the messenger (indirect object, dative singular of nuntius, messenger)

epistulas = letters (direct object, accusative plural of epistula, letter)

dederant = had given (third person plural pluperfect indicative active of do, I give)



paravistine, mi filia, epistulam.

Have you prepared the letter, my daughter? [Are your sure it's "filia" (daughter) and not "fili" (son)? "mi" belongs with "fili", "mea" belongs with filia"]

paravisti = have you prepared (second person singular perfect indicative active of paro, I prepare)

-ne = interrogative particle, turning the sentence into a question.

mi = my (vocative singular masculine of meus, my; considering that "my" qualifies "filia" (daughter), it should be "mea", the vocative feminine of "meus")

filia = daughter (vocative singular of filia, daughter; if the vocative noun was "fili" instead, that would mean "son" and "mi fili" would be correct as a rendering of "o my son")

epistulam = the letter (direct object, accusative singular of epistula, letter)



Done with a knowledge of Latin, not with an online translator. And the "thumbs-down" makes no sense whatsoever unless it's because my answer differs from whatever Google Translate spews out.
ganga
2016-09-22 09:45:11 UTC
I suppose a right away item is only a noun that's within the accusative case. "Viri virges amant." In this situation, the direct item of the verb "amant" is "virges," that is within the accusative case. The guys love the direct item, that is the virgins. In different phrases, if a verb is adopted by way of a noun, the verb does whatever to a noun, the noun is then the direct item of the verb.
anonymous
2016-09-16 09:26:49 UTC
Always when i ask a question, even if it's the simplest one, nobody can provide me a good informed answer on this website. What happened to people who really take the time to answer..
anonymous
2016-09-20 08:24:18 UTC
possible yeah


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