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Expert: Maria - 12/11/2009

Question
Hello. I wish to have a proper translation of the phrase, "Love is stronger than Death." into Latin. Thank you. I was told that a human translator would be more accurate than the online translators.

Answer
Hello,

Here’s a correct Latin translation of “Love is stronger than Death”:

-"Morte est Amor fortior".

See below for grammatical analysis.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Love = AMOR (subject in the nominative case, 3rd.declension)

-is = EST (from SUM, I am)

-stronger = FORTIOR (comparative of the adjective FORTIS, agreed with AMOR)

-than Death = MORTE (ablative of comparison of MORS, 3rd.declension)

As you can see, Latin word order is different from English just because in Latin syntactical relationships are indicated by the endings, not by the order of the words.

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Comment	Thanks, I didn't know that word order mattered. Most online translators just translate one word at a time and don't consider normal usage. It was different than what I expected. When I tried it online I had gotten "Diligo est validus quam nex" which is very different from this result. Maybe Ill ask you again why that is sometime, right now the follow-ups dont work.