Expert: Maria - 6/16/2009

Question
Hi Maria,
How would you say "No one can judge me" in Latin?
I need it for a school paper so I would thank you a lot.


Answer
Hello,

Here’s the Latin translation of  "No one can judge me":

“Nemo me iudicare potest”.

Have a nice day,
Maria
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Note that:

-No one = NEMO (subject in the nominative )

-can = POTEST (from POSSUM, I can)

-judge= IUDICARE (infinitive of IUDICO, I judge)

-me =ME (accusative of the 1st.person  personal pronoun EGO, I)

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