Expert: Maria - 9/27/2009

Question
Dear Maria, I was hoping you could translate mindless self indulgence into latin. Thank you.

Answer
Hello,

“Mindless self indulgence“ translates as follows into Latin:

-“Stulta sui indulgentia” or “Sui stulta indulgentia”

In Latin in fact word order can be variable.

Best regards,
Maria
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-mindless = STULTA (nominative feminine of STULTUS agreed with INDULGENTIA)

-self = SUI (pronoun in the genitive as INDULGENTIA governs the genitive)

-indulgence= INDULGENTIA (1st.declension)