Expert: Maria - 11/1/2008

Question
Hello there i was wondering if you could help as i have tried many dictionaries and keep coming up with something slightly different each time!

I am looking at translating "We will never die" into Latin.

So far i have "nos volo numquam intereo" but understand that there are special rules and it is not as easy as translating each individual word.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time


Answer
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Note that your Latin phrase "nos volo numquam intereo" which is wrong,as I've already said, should be translated as  "We I want I never die "!!

In fact NOS (1st.person plural pronoun which in Latin is not necessary) means " we ", while VOLO (1st.person SINGULAR, present indicative) means "I want" and INTEREO (1st.person SINGULAR, present indicative)means "I die".

As you can see, this sounds absolutely absurd, of course!

Therefore the correct translations of "We will never die", where "we will die" is a future tense, are “Numquam moriemur” or "Numquam peribimus", as I've already said.
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Hello,

The correct Latin translation of  the phrase “We will never die" is the following:

“Numquam moriemur”.

Another correct translation is: "Numquam peribimus” where I used another verb instead of “moriemur”.

See below for grammatical analysis.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-We will die = MORIEMUR (1st.person plural, future tense  of MORIOR, deponent verb)  or PERIBIMUS (1st.person plural, future tense  of  PEREO, intransitive verb).
The pronoun “we” ('nos' in Latin) is omitted as it is implied in the 1st.person plural  of the verb)

-never = NUMQUAM

As for “nos volo numquam intereo”, I’m sorry,  but it is wrong.