I have been trying to translate this phrase now for some weeks from english into Latin but i am unsure if it is correct.
Could somebody please correct it for me?
I will always be your evil queen.
so far i have come up with
ego voluntas semper adesse * * regina.
I'm really stuck and need this in for Monday's course completion deadline - please help.
Help needed
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mala regina tua semper ero is one way to say it.
ego voluntas semper adesse * * regina, this doesn't mean anything really... nothing is declined or conjugated, and voluntas is the noun for "free will", not a future verb. If you need specific help then fire away, but if not then I hope my translation works well for you.
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ego voluntas semper adesse * * regina, this doesn't mean anything really... nothing is declined or conjugated, and voluntas is the noun for "free will", not a future verb. If you need specific help then fire away, but if not then I hope my translation works well for you.
Ave atque vale
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Ok, here is the sentence broken down:
I will always be your evil queen.
I will be = verb ero (first person future singular of esse "to be"), you can put ego "I" but it is understood by the conjugation of the verb.
always = adverb semper.
your (singular) = adjective tuus/tua/tuum, must agree in gender with its noun, regina.
evil = adjective malus/mala/malum, must agree in gender with its noun, regina.
queen = feminine, 1st conjugation, nominative noun regina.
It's perfectly normal to get stuck, Latin is a huge investment and will demand a great deal of your time if you want to become proficient at it. There is also no particular order that most of those words had to go in, I just chose the one that seemed simplest.
I will always be your evil queen.
I will be = verb ero (first person future singular of esse "to be"), you can put ego "I" but it is understood by the conjugation of the verb.
always = adverb semper.
your (singular) = adjective tuus/tua/tuum, must agree in gender with its noun, regina.
evil = adjective malus/mala/malum, must agree in gender with its noun, regina.
queen = feminine, 1st conjugation, nominative noun regina.
It's perfectly normal to get stuck, Latin is a huge investment and will demand a great deal of your time if you want to become proficient at it. There is also no particular order that most of those words had to go in, I just chose the one that seemed simplest.
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae
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Re: Help needed
Haha voluntas...free will...K+C wrote:
ego voluntas semper adesse * * regina.
Has your teacher gone through conjugations with you? I'm asking because my German teacher for example gives out ridiculous sheets with all ranges of tenses and expects us to do them in spite of the fact that she has never taught us them before...funny
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