English Phrases

Here is a list of some phrases in English with their Latin equivalents meant to showcase how the English sentence looks like in Latin.

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There are currently 185 phrases.

Can you hear that?

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Potesne audire tu illum? (See here)

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The faithful soldier guarded the powerful king from the bad people.

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Miles fidelis regem potentem custodiebat ad populis malis. (See here)

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She was discovered the true Goddess by her gait.

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Vera incessu patuit dea. (See here)

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This man's son will work with me tomorrow, and his daughter will show my sister her house in three hours all day.

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Filius huius viri mecum cras laborabit, et filia eius domum eius sorori meae horis tribus diem totam ostendet. (See here)

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I ran more quickly than her, but Hank ran the most quickly of us.

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Ego ea celerius cucurri, sed Hank nostri celerrime cucurrit. (See here)

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I am asking him to purchase a ship.

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Eum rogo ut navem emat. (See here)

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Do you see the large mountains, King?

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Videsne ingentes montes, rex? (See here)

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Everything I can do, you can do better, and this annoys me.

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Omnia possum agere, tu melius potes agere, et hoc me vexat. (See here)

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She will see how great the strength of their words had been.

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Ea videbit quanta vis verborum eorum fuerit. (See here)

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My day was good. My day was bad. This day was the worst. This day was the best.

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Dies meus bonus erat. Dies meus malus erat. Dies hic pessimus erat. Dies hic optimus erat. (See here)

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Julius reads sillier books than Maria.

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Iulius libros absurdiores legit quam Maria. (See here)

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We are the people.

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Sumus populi. (See here)

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Few hope to resist the cavalry.

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Pauci resistere equitibus sperant. (See here)

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I am tired of school.

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Mihi ludi taedet. (See here)

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Aurora knows that her friend greatly loves her. Her friend also knows that he is very greatly loved by Aurora.

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Aurora putat amicum eius eam magnopere amare. Amicus eius quoque putat se ab Aurora maxime amari. (See here)

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The boy and girl had come to the school yesterday.

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Ventum erat a puero puellaque ad ludum heri. (See here)

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I am loved by her, and she is loved by me.

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Ab ea amor, et ea ab me amatur. (See here)

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"How are you?" said Jack. "I am well," Celia said to him.

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"Quomodo es?" Iack dixit. "Bene sum," Celia ei dixit. (See here)

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Seth becomes very sad.

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Seth miserrimum fit. (See here)

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Publius is more manly than Paulus.

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Publius virilior est Paulo. (See here)

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They sailed the worst river.

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Ei flumen pessimum navigant. (See here)

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I can speak Latin.

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Latinam possum dicere. (See here)

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The queen offered the world to the soldiers.

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Regina militibus terras obtulit. (See here)

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They ask why you cannot go with us.

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Rogant cur nobiscum possis non ire. (See here)

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What is there to fear than fear itself?

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Quid ibi est timere timore se? (See here)

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I cannot hear you.

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Te non possum audire. (See here)

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Who are you?

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Quis te est? (See here)

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Many sons knew that they were inheriting their parents' property.

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Filii multi putaverunt se excipere bona parentum eorum. (See here)

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The angry Jack said to his foolish friend, "You are loving that girl, Max? She is a very horrible girl whom you love!"

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Jack iratus amico fatuo dixit, "Tu puellam istam amas, Max? Ea puella pessima quam amas est!" (See here)

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Love is only shown by friendship.

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Amor ab amicitia solum ostenditur. (See here)

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Give the statue to me, now!

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Statuam mihi nunc da! (See here)

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I will give all the glory of my heart to God who is king.

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Ego glorias onmes amoris mei Deo qui rex est dabo. (See here)

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Will love escape me, or will I escape love?

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Amorne me evadet, aut egone amorem evadet? (See here)

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Sally had been heard quite clearly by her husband Seth, but Seth will never be heard by his wife.

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Sally ab marito Setho eius clarius audita erat, sed Seth ab uxore eius numquam audietur. (See here)

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I did not give the richer girl money.

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Pecuniam puellae divitiori non do. (See here)

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In one month, I will ask Janet, "Did you cook the cow for two or three hours?"

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Mense uno, Ianeti quaeram, "Tune bovem horas duos tresve coxisti?" (See here)

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Do you think that the father ought to read books to his son?

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Scisne patrem libros eius filio decere legere? (See here)

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Marcus is always losing money.

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Marcus pecuniam semper perdit. (See here)

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Give the money to me!

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Date pecuniam mihi! (See here)

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Although the queen had been captured by the king's worst enemies, the king's soldiers did not immediately prepare to save her.

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Quamquam regina ab hostibus pessimis regis capta erat, milites regis eam non statim paraverunt servare. (See here)

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I found my smallest object with my good friend, and I placed it in my shoe so no one can find it.

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Rem meam minimam cum amico meo bono inveni, et id in calceum meum posui tam nemines id potest invenire. (See here)

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Never trust the Greeks, and beware their gifts!

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Graecibus numquam crede, et dona eorum cave! (See here)

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Fabius wrote a poem a little longer than the poem of Claudius.

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Fabius carmen paulo longius scripsit carmine Claudii. (See here)

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By the end of the day, I will have made a wonderful gift for Father.

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Ante finem diei, donum mirum patri fecero. (See here)

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He says that Marcus called his brother.

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Dicit Marcum fratrem suum vocavisse. (See here)

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My father likes to read many books.

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Pater mei legere libros multos amat. (See here)

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Which officer was in charge of the legion?

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Legatus quis legioni praefuit? (See here)

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My twelfth dog ran to my seventh cow in three open fields.

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Canis meus duodecimus ad bovem meam septimam in campis tribus apertis cuccurit. (See here)

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The son sought public office with help from his father.

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Natus honorem auxilio de patre eius petivit. (See here)

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Money was a help for the poor.

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Pecunia erat auxilio pauperis. (See here)

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