Expert: Maria - 5/7/2007

Question
what would be the latin equivalent to...
"The clever young-man found the money hidden in the ground."

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the translation you asked me:

“Iuvenis intellegens nummos invenit sub terra defossos”.

Note that:

-The clever = INTELLEGENS (adjective in the nominative agreed with IUVENIS)

-young-man = IUVENIS (nominative, 3rd.declension)

-found = INVENIT (perfect tense of INVENIO, 4th.conjugation)

-the money = NUMMOS (accusative plural of NUMMUS, 2nd.declension)

-hidden = DEFOSSOS (past participle of DEFODIO, 3rd.conjugation)

-in = SUB (preposition which takes the ablative)

-the ground = TERRA (ablative)

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

Best,
Maria