Expert: Maria - 9/10/2011

Question
Hi I would like to know how you would say in latin "my son ,a gift from god".im making a photo album and  want to label the photo cds  and album cover like this .thank u

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the translation you asked me:

-“Filius meus, Dei donum”.

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Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-My = MEUS (possessive adjective in the nominative masculine agreed with FILIUS)

-son = FILIUS (nominative case, masculine noun,2nd.declension)

-a gift = DONUM (nominative, neuter noun, 2nd.declension)

-from God = DEI (genitive of the masculine noun DEUS, 2nd.declension).

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