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Dear Lilly,

Can I have a bridge, pls?

CC: lilian canale

"Because no matter how much time passes, my love for you can only increase, forever I will love you."

Hi, Alex!

You know, I cannot understand why you have translated: "Quoniam tempus praeteritum non refert... ?

Besides,
love for you --> amor tui (gen. subiectivus)

You have more possibilites:
amor alicuius (as above),
amor in/erga aliquem

Well...
quoniam -> since, as
tempus praeteritum -> the past
non refert -> does not matter

Please remember that I translated from the Portuguese text, not from Lilian's bridge!

So... how do we say "my love for you" in Latin? We can't keep "meus" at all?

my love for you -->amor meus erga te (best option to me)

Dear Alex, I told you that I didn't understand your translation, since Lilian's bridge (first part) meant sth else. I didn't mean your translation was grammatically incorrect(apart from the expression with "amor" )

Hi Lilian,
Could you tell me if: "Since the past doesn't matter" may also start the sentence?


CC: lilian canale

No, the "past" is not the subject of the sentence. It is a verb, the line means exactly:
"Because it does not matter the time that passes (how much time passes).."

I think there should be dots in the beginning.
...pois não importa o tempo que passar
...because it does not matter

That word "pois" does not usually start a sentence, it shows a reason or consequence.

Thank you, Lilian.

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Hi Alex,
Could you, please, translate once again the sentence according to Lilian's explanations?

Aneta, I have really no other idea how to translate it. I did my best. If you feel like it, reject my translation. I had already thought before about not doing anymore Portuguese->Latin ones.

But you already have got the English bridge! You for sure can make it!

I'm afraid I can't, Aneta. Nobody has ever taught me how to say "because" in Latin, the only alternative I can think of is the "ablativus absolutus" construction. And how am I supposed to translate "the time that passes", if not "tempus praeteritum"?

But "Quoniam" is not bad, dear!
Anyway, you already said that yourself that tempus praeteritum means "the past", so?

Why shouldn't it be translated in a descriptive way??

Tempus quod praeterit? Isn't this too literal? I generally avoid relative clauses in such contexts, because they're really unusual in Latin (at least in the texts I faced)...

Why not this way:
"Quoniam non refert quomodo tempus praeterit..."

Don't be afraid of such constructions, dear Alex. They are quite common for Latin too.

Ok
Dzięki

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