Ancient Languages/latin translation

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Maria please please please can you translate this for me it would mean so much as i am having trouble with the translation,  I will never leave you. Thanks David

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Hello,

“I will never leave you” translates as “Te numquam deseram”  or “Numquam te relinquam” .

Have a nice day,
Maria
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Note that:

-I will  leave = DESERAM ( future of DESERO, I leave) or RELINQUAM (future of RELINQUO, I leave)

-never= NUMQUAM

-you = TE (direct object, accusative of the 1st.person pronoun)

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

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