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Thu 12 Jul, 2007 09:12 am
I asked a question regarding "Forever Yours" in latin. The person that replied says it depends on the gender of yours.
I don't understand. Can someone explain.
I am giving a watch to my guy and I don't want to put the wrong thing.
Is it gender based on the person saying it or on the person receiving it?
Thanks for your help
In Latin, possessive pronouns, mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, etc have a gender ending which has to match the item or person referred to.
I think you are giving a watch to a male person, engraved with a message, telling him that you ( a woman) will always be his. So the possessive pronoun takes the feminine form.
Semper is the Latin word for "forever" or "always".
The Latin word for "yours" will either be "voster" (masculine) or "vostra" (feminine)
So
A woman saying "I am forever yours" to a man would use "semper vostra"
A man saying "I am forever yours" to a woman would use "semper voster".