How would I say “My cat is your cat” in Latin?
Cattus meus cattus tuus est.
Thanks. that is a little different than I got from google translate. It seems to flow better.
Any contrary opinions?
You could certainly rearrange the words a bit, though what Giles gave you would be the standard order. And I might be inclined to colloquially drop the “est”, but that’s not really standard.
Mi gato es su gato
Meae felis est vester felis.
That would be VERY late Iberian dialect! 
Giles, any particular reason for choosing cattus over felis? I know they’re both valid usages (which surprises people who think “cattus” is pseudo-Latin). But I don’t know the connotations of the two words.
Why isn’t “your cat” in the accusative case? Just wondering as it’s been a long time since I studied Latin.
Sí … muy, muy, sumamente tarde.
Oh, by the way. My cat caught a matta-u.
I looked both up in Wiktionary, and found that suggested fēlēs rather than “felis” as the nominative, so I just felt that “cattus” sounded better than “fēlēs”.
:dubious: I was born at night, but not LAST night…
Chronos, I didn’t know you knew Latin.
Esse is a “copulative verb” (that sounds dirty!) which links two nominatives. “My cat is your cat” <=> “your cat is my cat” in a way that “John hit Mike” <=/=> “Mike hit John.”
Darn! You spoiled my punch line! :mad: 
I was actually torn between doing what I did and posting “sigh Okay, I’ll take one for the team. What’s a matta-u?” but decided that the greater good was served by defusing the bomb…
Well, a little. I had four years of it in high school and one in college, but I’m very rusty on it.
From high school English I remember the only thing about a copulative is that “and” is one, is a conjunction, and that we use it however we feel like in lists. Thanks to your post I found out–yet again, and always, I hope–how little I know. Tons of different types of copulative conjunctions.
Never heard of copulative verbs, but hmm, “is” is (Bill Clinton, unsex me now!).
I see that some copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively–although in the cited Wiki list I don’t know which ones-- a situation which sounds even dirtier, if not suggestively perverse.
Nothin’s matta me, whasa matta-u?
Sorry. Couldn’t resist it. :o
As I recall, Bullwinkle J. Moose is a graduate of Wassamatta U.
Latin to Bullwinkle in 19 posts.
New record?