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Help with latin translation please

 
 
Reply Mon 17 Jan, 2005 09:27 am
How would you say this sentence in latin: They wished to have dinner outside at a meadow.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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George
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jan, 2005 10:34 am
This sounds suspiciously like homework, Heather.
How much help would you like?
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HeatherJo88
 
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Reply Thu 20 Jan, 2005 05:30 pm
George wrote:
This sounds suspiciously like homework, Heather.
How much help would you like?
It isn't homework it's a sentence that my teacher gave me on study guide for the national latin exam. I was only wanting to make sure that I translated it correctly. Is this the correct way: Volint cenavi foris ad pratulum. You don't have to necessarily give me the answer, but I wasn't sure if it looked right... Could you point me in the right direction?
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George
 
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Reply Fri 21 Jan, 2005 07:54 am
OK, let's look at it a piece at a time.

First, the verb. Volo is the right verb to use, but you want the
perfect, voluerunt.

After volo, one uses the infinitive. Ceno is the correct verb but the
infinitive is cenare.

Foris is correct for outside.

Now as for "at a meadow", that is clumsy even in English (no offense to
your teacher). I'd translate that "in pratulo", which would literally be "in a
meadow".

Hope this helps!
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HeatherJo88
 
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Reply Fri 21 Jan, 2005 09:53 pm
Thank you very much for your help! I really appreciate it
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George
 
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Reply Sun 23 Jan, 2005 09:56 am
My pleasure.
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