Here is a list of some phrases in English with their Latin equivalents meant to showcase how the English sentence looks like in Latin.
There are currently 181 phrases.
The great woman cooked good food for my serious brothers and sisters.
Femina magna cibum bonum coxit pro fratibus sororibusque meis gravibus. (See here)
Knowledge can kill the strongest of men.
Scientia viros fortissimos potest interficere. (See here)
To realize the mistakes that I have made makes me sad.
Sentire errores quos feci me miserum facit. (See here)
Who is the small boy whom the larger, more powerful man is threatening? Does he need help? I will help him before the man hurts him.
Quis puer parvus quem vir maior potentior imminet est? Isne auxilium egerit? Ego eum adiuvabo ante vir eum nocet. (See here)
I buy the best food for my family.
Cibum optimum pro familia mea emo. (See here)
In one month, I will ask Janet, "Did you cook the cow for two or three hours?"
Mense uno, Ianeti quaeram, "Tune bovem horas duos tresve coxisti?" (See here)
Many sons knew that they were inheriting their parents' property.
Filii multi putaverunt se excipere bona parentum eorum. (See here)
The lucky boy finds the small (virgin) girl next to the beautiful roses.
Puer felix virginem parvam invenit apud pulchras rosas. (See here)
We ate Mom's excellently cooked food with joy.
Matris cibum melius coctum cum gaudio edimus. (See here)
They sailed the worst river.
Ei flumen pessimum navigant. (See here)
The mother's third son most courageously saw his rather delightful girlfriend, but he had not told his mother and the very angry mother therefore troubled him viciously.
Filius tertius matris amicam iucundiorem eius fortissime vidit, tamen is matri eius non dixerat et igitur mater iratissima eum ferociter vexavit. (See here)
I love the song that my friend has made.
Carmen quod amica mei fecit amo. (See here)
Does anyone feel that the senator is covering his crimes?
Quisquamne sentit senatorem tegere crimen eius? (See here)
Julius reads sillier books than Maria.
Iulius libros absurdiores quam Maria. (See here)
The mother asked her children not to run in the garden.
Mater liberos imperavit ne in horto currerent. (See here)
The boy and girl had come to the school yesterday.
Ventum erat a puero puellaque ad ludum heri. (See here)
Caesar was so drunk that he could not attack Gaul.
Caesar tam erbius erat ut Galliam oppugnare non posset. (See here)
I gave money to the merchant selling the roses.
Pecuniam dedi mercatori vendenti rosas. (See here)
Few hope to resist the cavalry.
Pauci resistere equitibus sperant. (See here)
I heard that Cornelia was going to the shop; however, I also heard that her friend had already bought the shoes that she was searching for.
Audivi Corneliam ad tabernam ire; tamen etiam audivi amicam eius iam emisse calceum quem ea quaerebat. (See here)
I hope that Latin never dies!
Spero Latinam numquam perire! (See here)
For me, email shall never replace written letters. These letters are more personal and representative of its author, and because of this we cannot defer.
Mihi, email litteras scriptas numquam substituit. Litterae hae privatiores et describentes scriptoris sunt, atque propter hoc possumus differre. (See here)
Everything I can do, you can do better, and this annoys me.
Omnia possum agere, tu melius potes agere, et hoc me vexat. (See here)
His mother having been killed, he returned home.
Matre eius necata, ad domum reddidit. (See here)
I can play some games, but I have more work to do first.
Ludos nonullos possum ludere, sed officia plora habeo primum agere. (See here)
Will love escape me, or will I escape love?
Amorne me evadet, aut egone amorem evadet? (See here)
Love is only shown by friendship.
Amor ab amicitia solum ostenditur. (See here)
The fierce brother has bad plans.
Frater ferox constilia mala habet. (See here)
Do not tell me who you are; it is better to tell the king your name.
Non dice mihi quem es; id melius est dicere regi nominem tuum. (See here)
The good man gave his beautiful wife a kiss, and with much love, he said, "I love you with all my heart."
Vir bonus uxori pulchrae eius suavium dedit, et multo cum amore, is dixit, "Ego te amo omne meo corde." (See here)
Did anyone trust the words of the senator today?
Quisquamne verbis senatoris credidit hodie? (See here)
Yesterday, when Antonia was walking to the store, she saw a strange man.
Hera, ubi Antonia ad copiam, virum novum vidit. (See here)
Every heart bears a secret within itself, but it is these secrets that define us and how we live in this world.
Cor quidque arcanum intra se fert, sed arcana haec definiunt nos et quomodo in mundo hoc vivimus. (See here)
Seth becomes very sad.
Seth miserrimum fit. (See here)
With the boy wanting to give the girl some roses, the father endured having been persuaded to allow this.
Puero volente dare puellae rosas, pater persuasus sinere hoc tulit. (See here)
David said that he had secretly gone with Sylvia to the temple because he had wanted to marry her.
David dixit se cum Sylvia ad templum isse quod is eam voluerat nubere. (See here)
Although I was absent, my friends at school read through this great book without me.
Quamquam aberam, amici mei ad ludum librum hunc magnum sine me perlegerunt. (See here)
Although the queen had been captured by the king's worst enemies, the king's soldiers did not immediately prepare to save her.
Quamquam regina ab hostibus pessimis regis capta erat, milites regis eam non statim paraverunt servare. (See here)
The faithful soldier guarded the powerful king from the bad people.
Miles fidelis regem potentem custodiebat ad populis malis. (See here)
It is allowed for you to cry at funerals.
Licet tibi ad funera flere. (See here)
Marcus is always losing money.
Marcus pecuniam semper perdit. (See here)
Her heart was more broken than his (heart).
Cors eius fractius erat corde eius. (See here)
My brother sleeps for a very long time.
Frater meus diutissime dormit. (See here)
With him willing, all will be led.
Eo volente omnes agentur. (See here)
Trax doesn't want to want.
Trax non vult velle. (See here)
My twelfth dog ran to my seventh cow in three open fields.
Canis meus duodecimus ad bovem meam septimam in campis tribus apertis cuccurit. (See here)
That isn't good for you to do.
Illud bonum non est tibi agere. (See here)
I knowing the truth wish to give it, but that feels like a lost dream.
Sciens veritatem volo dare id, sed illud sicut somnium perditum sentit. (See here)
Do you think that the father ought to read books to his son?
Scisne patrem libros eius filio decere legere? (See here)
