Expert: Maria - 12/21/2007

Question
can you please translate these into latin for me; yesterday's love is tomorrow's hope. the love from yesterday brings hope for tomorrow.

Answer
Hello Margaret,

Here’s the translation you asked me:

-“Hesternus amor  crastina est spes. Ex hesterno enim  die  amor  spem crastini fert diei ” .

See below for grammatical analysis.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-yesterday's = HESTERNUS (adjective, nominative masculine agreed with AMOR)

-love = AMOR (nominative, 3rd.declension)

-is = EST ( from SUM, I am)

-tomorrow's = CRASTINA (adjective, nominative feminine agreed with SPES)

-hope = SPES (nominative, 5th.declension)

-the love = AMOR

-from = EX ( preposition which takes the ablative case)

-yesterday = HESTERNO DIE (ablative of HESTERNUS and DIES))

-brings = FERT (from FERO, I bring)

-hope = SPEM (accusative of SPES, hope)

-for tomorrow = CRASTINI DIEI (genitive case of CRASTINUS and DIES).

I've added the conjunction ENIM  which in Latin is appropriate.

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