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Expert: Maria - 9/6/2009

Question
Hello, I recieved your e-mail about my question. You wrote that "God's protected girl" doesn't make any sense in English. What I'm trying to say is "The girl that God protected". Does thes make any sense? Thank you, again.

Answer
Hello,

first of all many tanks for explaining what you really meant, i.e. "The girl that God protected”.

So here’s the translation into Latin:

-“Puella a Deo protecta”.

Best regards,
Maria
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GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS of “Puella a Deo protecta” (literally, “The girl protected by God”):

-PUELLA (nominative, 1st.declension) = the girl

-A (preposition which takes the ablative case) = by

-DEO ( ablative of DEUS, 2nd.declension) = God

-PROTECTA (nominative feminine agreed with PUELLA, past participle, passive voice of PROTEGO, I protect) = protected

As you can see, Latin word order is different from English.

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Comment	Thank you so much. It says on the site, that I'll have the answer in 3 days but you got back to me so quickly. :}