Expert: Maria - 8/3/2011

Question
Please translate this in Latin:

Stay with me father till my last breath.

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the translation you asked me:

“Mane mecum, pater,usque ad extremum halitum meum”.

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Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Stay = MANE (2nd.person singular, present imperative of MANEO, I stay)

-with = CUM (preposition which takes the ablative)

-me = ME (ablative of the 1st.person pronoun). Note that Latin uses MECUM where the ablative ME is attached to the  preposition CUM.

-father = PATER (vocative, 3rd.declension)

-till = USQUE AD ( preposition which takes the accusative case)

-my = MEUM (accusative masculine of the possessive MEUS agreed with HALITUM)

-last = EXTREMUM (accusative masculine of the adjective EXTREMUS agreed with HALITUM)

-breath = HALITUM (accusative of the masculine noun HALITUS, 4th.declension)

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