Classical Latin→English

Translate Classical Latin to English the way locals mean it.

Classical Latin speakers use ordinary words, particles, and idioms in ways that a textbook reader may mistake for literal statements.

474 local dialects

What locals actually say

Quid agis?

How are you doing?

The idiomatic question quid agis means how someone is getting on, not literally what are you doing.

Age, vale.

All right, take care.

Age is used as a conversational interjection meaning all right or come on, rather than only as the imperative of ago.

Non est quod timeas.

You do not need to worry.

The construction non est quod with the subjunctive expresses lack of reason or necessity, so quod timeas is not simply a thing that you fear.

Quanti hoc est?

How much does this cost?

The genitive of value, quanti, is the Classical Latin construction for asking a price.

Quo mihi eundum est?

Where do I need to go?

The dative mihi with the gerundive eundum est forms a passive periphrastic, signaling necessity.

Cenatum imus?

Are we going out to dinner?

The supine cenatum after imus expresses purpose after a verb of motion, a characteristically Latin construction.

Mei omnes domi sunt.

Everyone in my family is home.

The substantivized possessive mei means my people or family in context, signaling an intimate household group.

Nunc mihi laborandum est.

I have to work now.

The impersonal gerundive laborandum est with the dative mihi expresses personal obligation in Classical Latin.

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

Classical Latin conventions with ecclesiastical usage where the context is liturgical; idiomatic word order, not word-for-word calques.

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