At the end of the day we are together
My wife and I want to etch this on our wedding bands. How can we wrote it?
Thanks!
For your amusement, Google gave:
In fine diei una simus
Posted Aug 26, 2015, 1:59 AM UTC
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Maybe, "at the setting of the sun we are together"? "Occasu solis una sumus."
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I'm late to the game, but to me "at the end of the day" is an idiom in English, meaning something like "when it really comes down to it" or "in the final analysis." If this is the meaning that you intend, as opposed to a literal reference to the chronological end of a day, then I would suggest using something like ad summam.
It might be worthwhile to look into something along the lines of: Ad summam, coniuncti sumus.
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Wow, the Google translate actually was decent for once.
Personally, I would change the order slightly for style:
In diei fine una simus
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Thank you!
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In the sidebar:
"Google Translate is always wrong, always. Don't even bother turning to Google Translate before asking us for help with a translation."
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Thanks? Thats why I specifically said, for your amusement.
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A bit late in replying to this.
I am just a beginner and was repeating what is always said when G-Translate is mentioned. Still, the top answer vindicates what I said, it's not precise enough to be counted as correct.
Perhaps that's what happens when beginners turn up at an elite club and want to get involved in some way.
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I would be careful not to cast yourself as some kind of victim here. I don't see any comment here that treats you harshly in any way.
Yes, the referral to the sidebar is often made, but mainly in cases where someone clearly hasn't read the sidebar and thinks the Google translation might actually be correct. In this case, OP all but literally said they didn't put much stock in it, which makes your referral to the sidebar rather harsh, as it implies that OP is one of these people who doesn't check a subreddit's sidebar rules before posting.
As a beginner, you might have done well just to apologise for making a small mistake. So what? You read OP's post a bit too quickly and thought they actually believed the Google translation. Nobody here would mind. I've made mistakes here myself time and time again, and I've been corrected, sometimes nicely, sometimes bluntly. That's what happens when you write your words for the public to see, especially when your own words can already be construed as somewhat blunt. So your comment was downvoted? Well, it didn't actually contribute to the discussion, did it? That's what the downvote button is for: it's a judgment of the comment, not of you. Please don't think that r/latin doesn't like newcomers. I like to believe the people here do like newcomers, and frankly, r/latin can't afford not to; we're already a small sub as it is.
So please come back and read and write some Latin with us. I think you'll find most people here will be just as nice to you as you are to them. I just don't think calling everyone here some elite club because of one downvoted comment is going to get you many friends here. Just saying.
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That's surprisingly not quite as terrible as usual. I wasn't mad keen on 'fine diei' but it's used in the Bellum Hispaniense, so I guess it's legit. But note no preposition: fine diei una sumus. (simus = 'let us be', sumus = 'we are'. Your choice.)
Other ideas for 'at the end of the day': multo die (used by Caesar) for the temporal sense, denique for the more figurative sense of 'finally, to sum up'.
I also thought of 'die peracto' (lit. 'with the day having been completed') but I'd want to hear what others think of that first.
We want to express, that when the day is over, we are still together. Think we will go with "Multo die una sumus". Would that make sense?
To add, I would like to say that die peracto in a more literal translation means 'with the day having been made through', or as a more natural English phrase, 'having made it through the day'. This may or may not be suitable for what you're trying to say.
Also, just to give it as an option, you could perhaps use the future tense erimus instead of sumus or simus. So then something like
die peracto una erimus
means 'having made it through the day, we will be together'.
It would, but thinking this over again, multo die is 'late in the day', which is not exactly the same thing as 'at the end of the day'. fine diei would get across the sense of 'end' more clearly, so you might want to go with that instead.