Expert: Maria - 12/20/2007

Question
'You changed my life and i love you for it'
'this i swear'


Answer
Hello,

the phrase “You changed my life and I love you for it“  translates into Latin as follows:

-“Meam mutasti vitam ideoque te amo”.

As for “This I swear”, it is : “Hoc  iuro”.

See below for grammatical analysis.

Best regards,
Maria
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GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS
-You changed = MUTASTI (2nd.person singular, past tense of MUTO, I change)
-my = MEAM (accusative feminine of MEUS, agreed with VITAM)
-life= VITAM (accusative feminine of VITA, life)
-and = -QUE (enclitic particle attached to IDEO)
-I  love = AMO
-you = TE (personal pronoun in the accusative )
-for it = IDEO


-This = HOC (accusative neuter of the demonstrative pronoun HIC)
-I swear = IURO

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