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I need to know how to write this phrase for a card:

"return to us as quickly as possible, magister"

my best translation is:

"nobis quam celerimme redete, magistri."

the verb redete is supposed to be redeo (return/go back)... im not sure if that ones right. is any of my sentence wrong? is there a better way to say this? it's for a "get well soon" card.

2007-09-25 14:44:58 · 1 answers · asked by greystoke 2 in Society & Culture Languages

1 answers

REDI NOBIS QUAM CITISSIME , O MAGISTER
or
O MAGISTER, QUAM CITISSIME NOBIS REDI

My suggestions :
1.- Choose the one sounding better to you ; as you know in Latin construction of the sentence is merely optional.
2.-The adverb is celerrime not celerimme: However in this sentence I would use citissime. It's up to you.
3.- Redete means nothing in Latin. The use of verb redeo sounds perfect to me but the imperative form of redeo (to express a command or an invitation, as it's in this sentence) is redi (sing) and redite (plur.).
In this context, being the invitation addressed to yr teacher, it must be used the singular form, redi.
4.- Being magister both nominative and vocative (sing) I would suggest to put the"o" to mean it's at the vocative. Magistri is the genitive (sing) or plural nominative / vocative of magister and it's not fitting this sentence.

2007-09-25 18:35:12 · answer #1 · answered by martox45 7 · 1 0

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