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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | English term or phrase: Whatever shall be shall be, the future's not ours to see | | My colleague's daughter wants a tattoo with the above message in Latin! I don't know where the tattoo is to be located, so I don't know whether that would limit the translation in any way. I would be grateful for your expert help! |
| | | Quodcumque fiet, fiet. Non nobis est tempus futurum videre. | Explanation:
Literally, 'Whatever shall happen/be done, shall happen/be done. The
future (time) is not for us to see.' 'Non' ('not') comes first as being
emphatic. 'Nobis' ('ours', lit. 'for us') is dative of possession.
'Tempus' ('time') may be omitted, especially seeing that the translation
would be a tattoo. |
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 Joseph J. Brazauskas
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