the "translate please" thread

[Dark_Silence]

anyone has any idea how to say "to lose" in latin?
I am currently playing "Caesar IV" and i am losing 2 or 3 times every mission before i get it right, so i wanted to change a little the sentence "Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant" ...

 

[Violens]

anyone has any idea how to say "to lose" in latin?
I am currently playing "Caesar IV" and i am losing 2 or 3 times every mission before i get it right, so i wanted to change a little the sentence "Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant" ...

I think the infinitive form should be "perdere"..

 

[hyena]

yeah. diem perdidi, as one character in asterix used to say.

 

[Dark_Silence]

I think the infinitive form should be "perdere"..

i thought so, but i have no ideao how to conjugate the verb. And i think i sold the latin grammar book i had at school!

 

[Violens]

i thought so, but i have no ideao how to conjugate the verb. And i think i sold the latin grammar book i had at school!

Are you looking for conjugation or paradigm?..I think still I can tell you the both of them!

 

[Violens]

yeah. diem perdidi, as one character in asterix used to say.

Tu sei italiano, tranquillo, ti capisco

 

[Dark_Silence]

Are you looking for conjugation or paradigm?..I think still I can tell you the both of them!

yes, i wanted to cojugate the verb as "morituri" in "morituri te salutant". If you can tell me, thats great! thanks in advance !

 

[Violens]

yes, i wanted to cojugate the verb as "morituri" in "morituri te salutant". If you can tell me, thats great! thanks in advance !

"Morituri" is a particular form of the verb "morior" (future participle if I'm not wrong..) which is deponent; in this case it's impossible to conjugate "perdo" as deponent (deponent, in you remember, means that it's got just the passive form that works as if it was active)..tell me something more specifical..

 

[afz902k]

I think she wants to say "Ave Caesar, those about to lose salute you", or something like that.

 

[Dark_Silence]

I think she wants to say "Ave Caesar, those about to lose salute you", or something like that.

lol yeah thats it
Am i so terrible at explaining things?

 

[afz902k]

Not really, no

 

[Violens]

I think she wants to say "Ave Caesar, those about to lose salute you", or something like that.

In this case it's just a question of substitution; " Ave Caesar, perdituri te salutant"..it should be the right sentence..

 

[Dark_Silence]

In this case it's just a question of substitution; " Ave Caesar, perdituri te salutant"..it should be the right sentence..

Thanks!

 

[Dark_Silence]

Not really, no

I knew it Every time i try to explain something to someone, I understand myself, but no one gets what i try to explain.

 

[afz902k]

It is probably because you assume that they will get what you're talking about with only a few details on the subject, you feel like there is no need to explain the whole matter step by step. It happens to me

The only thing you can do about it is stop assuming and start explaining throughly, I'd say.

Although it might be absolutely not like that and I could be quite wrong. If that is the case, I just assumed it was like that.

 

[Kovenant84]

I just assumed it was like that.

The only thing you can do about it is stop assuming.

~kov.

 

[afz902k]

Intentional

 

[Dark_Silence]

It is probably because you assume that they will get what you're talking about with only a few details on the subject, you feel like there is no need to explain the whole matter step by step. It happens to me

The only thing you can do about it is stop assuming and start explaining throughly, I'd say.

Although it might be absolutely not like that and I could be quite wrong. If that is the case, I just assumed it was like that.

Thats probabily the case, it happened to me before anyway

 

[afz902k]

It means you're smart. In my case it doesn't mean anything, of course

 

[Violens]

I could not read all the previous pages of the therad, so here's my question: what about swedish and its difficulty/utility in the work field? Can someone tell me some basic grammar rule just to see how it works? I am thinking about an only 1 year exam next accademic (does this word exist?) year..