Is this a correct translation?

Latin Learning Latin
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Title says it all; here’s the sentence, first in English, then my translation of it in Latin.

My love for you will last forever.

Amor meus tibi sempiternus durabit.

I also want to translate this into Latin.

You’re no one’s queen but mine.

Here’s my translation, but I feel that I may be wrong:

Regina neminis nisi mea es.

My first guess was to use sed instead of nisi. Am I right in saying that that sentence wouldn’t make sense if I used sed instead of nisi?

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Anyone? I’d appreciate a response.

Multas gratias vobis ago.

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My sense of it would be:

Meus amor tui perpetuo permanebit (or maybe the present permanet would sound a a little better). I think there are multiple ways to express this, but you definitely need an objective genitive with amor.

I also want to translate this into Latin.

You’re no one’s queen but mine.

Here’s my translation, but I feel that I may be wrong:

Regina neminis nisi mea es.

My first guess was to use > sed > instead of > nisi> . Am I right in saying that that sentence wouldn’t make sense if I used > sed > instead of > nisi> ?

Nisi works nicely. But here I want to use the dative, nemini and mihi, “you are queen to no one except to me.”

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I don’t see anything obviously wrong, except that neminis is frowned upon by the Ciceronian Police, who prescribe nullius.

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My love for you will last forever.
Amor tui mihi semper durabit.
or (better)
Te amo, te semper amabo.

(“You’re no one’s queen but mine” is far from flattering and in Latin is simply ridiculous.)

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I am sure Juvenal would have come up with something witty. :smiley: