# Help with translation into German and Latin?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-translation-into-german-and-latin/790476 "2017-07-04T01:15:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-translation-into-german-and-latin/790476/21 "2017-07-07T05:36:15Z")

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> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> Google Translate for Latin is notoriously and pitifully bad.

But Latin noun declensions and verb conjugations in Wiktionary are quite good though unacclaimed. Once you nail down which word you’re using, Wiktionary will tell you the exact inflection to use with it (if you know some Latin grammar).

> [@](#):
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> I suggest:
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> _Furcam tene, crustum habemus!_

Melior est. But I’d use a diminutive like _furcillam_.

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