Expert: Maria Date: 6/18/2008 Subject: Phrase translation please : )
Question can you please translate "fight your darkness", thank you.
Answer Hello,
Your phrase translates as:
-“Adversus pugna tenebras” as well as "Contra pugna tenebras”
or with a different word order:
-"Contra tenebras pugna" as well as "Adversus tenebras pugna".
All the above translations are correct, of course.
Best,
Maria
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Note that:
-Fight = PUGNA ADVERSUS / CONTRA where PUGNA is a 2nd.person singular, imperative of PUGNO, while ADVERSUS / CONTRA are prepositions which take the accusative TENEBRAS.
-your = this possessive is omitted in Latin as it is implied.
-darkness =TENEBRAS (accusative plural of TENEBRA, 1st.declension. Latin uses the plural of this noun instead the singular).
As you can see, Latin word order can be 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.
