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Subject: English to Latin translation of 7 words
Category: Reference, Education and News
Asked by: mikekeller-ga
List Price: $3.50
Posted: 09 Oct 2005 17:22 PDT
Expires: 08 Nov 2005 16:22 PST
Question ID: 578306
Translate from English into Latin: 'I just discovered you. Therefore you exist.'
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Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: wwwsurfer-ga on 09 Oct 2005 18:08 PDT
 
JA pravedan prona?en te. Stoga te biti.
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: myoarin-ga on 09 Oct 2005 20:57 PDT
 
Is that Latin?

On the basis of "cogito ergo sum", it seems like the Latin would be something like
te reperio ergo ...  (I can't remember the 2nd person verb form  :-( )
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: amber00-ga on 10 Oct 2005 04:40 PDT
 
wwwsurfer.ga has given a Romanian translation.

The Latin for
'Therefore you exist' is:
'Ergo es'.
(Myoarin, the present tense of the verb 'to be ['esse'] is sum, es
est, sumus estis sunt.
I'll look at the rest after my next class.
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: amber00-ga on 10 Oct 2005 05:56 PDT
 
My translation:
'Hodie, te invenire. Ergo es.'

Hodie = today, or now. (One could use 'proxime' But 'hodie' seems more
idiomatic to me.)
'Te' = the accusative form of 'you' [tu, te, tui tibi te].
'Invenire' = first person perfect tense of 'invenio: to come upon,
find, meet with, discover or invent. I preferred 'invenio' to 'reperio
(to get again, find, discover) or 'disco (to learn, become acquainted
with) because it seems the best verb for describing a first meeting
with a person.
'Ergo' = Therefore
'Es' = you are (second person present tense of 'esse' the verb to be or to exist.

I hope this helps. I'm not a g@@gle researcher, so this is a free comment.
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: myoarin-ga on 10 Oct 2005 07:46 PDT
 
Amber,
I like that, hope Mike does too.

(Ceasar didn't use the second person very much, and I hardly got through the wars.)
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: frox-ga on 10 Oct 2005 15:48 PDT
 
Hodie, te invenire. Ergo es.

invenire is infinitive.
hodie is quote clearly "today" hoc-die -> to-day

I would suggest

Modo te invenii, ergo es.

I have just now found you, therefore you are.
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: rexy_rajan-ga on 11 Oct 2005 21:03 PDT
 
'I iustus evestigatus vos. Proinde vos futurus'
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: frox-ga on 13 Oct 2005 03:51 PDT
 
'I iustus evestigatus vos. Proinde vos futurus'

That is evidently an automated translation, and has the typical
mis-understanding of machine-generated texts.

I->I missed to see that english I is pronoum, translated as number 1

just->iustus  Just translated as "righteous"

you->vos translated you (2nd person singular) as you (2nd person plural) 

futurus. futurus is a substantive meaning "thah wuill exist". How does
that apply here??
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: amber00-ga on 13 Oct 2005 14:01 PDT
 
Having thought it over (and checking my Latin grammer), I believe that
Frox's translation is better than mine.
The Romanian one is just not Latin at all; and I entirely endorse
Frox's comments on the dreadful and incoherent automated version.
So, MikeKeller, go for Frox's translation.
Subject: Re: English to Latin translation of 7 words
From: benreaves-ga on 30 Oct 2005 18:09 PST
 
te invenio, ergo es

How about that?  I think this is precisely "I discover you, so you exist."
It's short and doesn't add "today".

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