Expert: Maria - 2/5/2010

Question
can you please tell me how to say I will be your guardian angel, in Latin?

Answer
Hello,

“Tuus custos ero angelus” is the correct translation of “I will be your guardian angel”.

Note that:
-“I will be” corresponds to ERO (future of SUM, I am);
-“your” is TUUS (possessive adjective, nominative masculine  agreed with ANGELUS);
-“guardian” is CUSTOS (nominative, 3rd.declension);
-“angel” is “ANGELUS (nominative,masculine noun, 2nd.declension).

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

Best regards,
Maria