Expert: Maria - 9/16/2009

Question
Would you be so kind as to provide me with the Latin for:

Greed will always overtake your commonsense.

(In the vernacular of slang, "Greed will get you every time.")

Answer
Hello,

Both "Greed will get you every time”  and “Greed will always overtake your commonsense”  translate as follows:

-“Aviditas te semper capiet”.

Best regards,
Maria
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-AVIDITAS (subject, nominative case, 3rd.declension) = greed

-TE (direct object, accusative of the 2nd.person singular  pronoun) = you /your commonsense

-SEMPER (adverb) = every time /always

-CAPIET (future of CAPIO) = will get /will overtake

As you can see, Latin word order can be different from English. In Latin in fact  syntactical relationships are indicated by the inflexional endings, not by the order of the words. Therefore it is not necessary to adhere to a strictly defined order.