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Help- English to Latin?
I need to say, "He was told", but scince there's two verbs I'm a little confused.
Would it be something like "fuit dicebat"?
That's as close as I can come! Translation and a really quick explination would be cool.
I've take two years of Latin, but Translation from English to Latin is really akward for me.
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Latin conjugations are different from the English way of doing things.
"He was told" is either "iussus est" in the perfect tense, or "iubebatur" in the imperfect. The perfect is used for an event that is punctual and finished in the past, the other one a repeated or continuous activity.
Dicere is not the word to use here, it means say, declare, state; allege, declare positively; assert; plead (case);talk/speak; make speech; play (instrument); pronounce, articulate; utter; mean;
name/call; appoint, fix/set (date); designate, declare intention of giving
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Quite hard for me, I took Latin almost 15 years ago.
Maybe "Ille fuit nuntiatum quod (+ what he was told in subjunctive)".
Or you could just twist it to "Somebody told him"?
- 1 decade ago
He was told is...............Dicebatur (I suppose in the sense "he was called)
For eg.
" Alexander was told the Great."..is " Alexander, Magnus dicebatur"
Source(s): Italian girl studing Latin for years