"Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
Latin translation: Noli procrastinare quod hodie perficere potes.
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| 5 +1 | Noli procrastinare quod hodie perficere potes. |
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| 5 | noli cras id agere quod hodie potes. |
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8 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Noli procrastinare quod hodie perficere potes. Explanation: Said to one person: "Noli procrastinare quod hodie perficere potes." Said to two or more people: "Nolite procrastinare quod hodie perficere potestis." Grammar: NOLI: "Don't!" (negative command particle, whose plural is NOLITE) PROCRASTINARE: "put off, procrastinate, delay until tomorrow" (infinitive verb required by NOLI[TE], built on the roots PRO, which means "ahead, forward," etc., and CRAS, which means "tomorrow", so that there is no need for an additional phrase meaning "until tomorrow") QUOD: "what(ever), (that) which" HODIE: "today" (built on the root DIES, which means "day", and which is the ancestor of Spanish "hoy" and Italian "oggi" of the same meaning) PERFICERE: verb appearing in the infinitive form required in connection with POTES, and meaning "accomplish, carry out, complete" (built on the roots PER {"through, thorough"] and FACERE ["do, make, perform"]) POTES: "you can, you are able" (plural form is POTESTIS) --Loquamur |
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noli cras id agere quod hodie potes. Explanation: Or 'nolite' (present imperative plural), if addressing more than one individual; the rest of the sentence would remain unchanged, although you could say 'ea...quae' for 'id...quod', if you wanted to stress that there were several, as opposed to just one, thing that is being put off. |
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