Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Latin term or phrase:
dederit
English translation:
And whatever path fortune has assigned us, we will follow
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Egmont
Mar 6, 2002 22:31
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Latin term
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dederit
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Latin to English
Art/Literary
Et quacumque viam dederit fortuna sequamur.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +1 | And whatever path fortune has assigned us, we will follow |
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| 4 | ... assigns us, we must follow ... |
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And whatever path fortune has assigned us, we will follow
I translated it very literally. Dederit is the past tense of give, third person singular; the subject of the sentence is fortuna. There is no need to say "to us" in this sentence; it is implicitly understood.
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Hubert"
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... assigns us, we must follow ...
dederit is either present perfect subjunctive or future perfect, I am unsure which in this context (sequamur is present subjunctive); past forms (indicative) of dare would be imperfect: dabat, present perfect: dedit, or pluperfect: dederat.
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