Expert: Maria - 7/7/2009

Question
What does the phrase "between fear and victory, I will conquer" translate to in Latin?

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the correct translation of “Between fear and victory, I will conquer“:

-"Inter metum  victoriamque, vincam!”

Best regards,
Maria
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GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS

-Between = INTER (preposition which takes the accusative case)

-fear = METUM (accusative of METUS, 4th.declension)

-and = -QUE (enclitic, i.e. joined at the end of a preceding word to form a single unit)

- victory = VICTORIAM (accusative of VICTORIA, 1st.declension)

- I will conquer = VINCAM (future of VINCO, I conquer)

As you can see, Latin word order is different from English.
Latin  is in fact an inflected language where syntactical relationships are indicated by the endings of each term, not by the order of the words.