Have you ever wanted to learn some latin, here are some easily learned and useful phrases. They are all authentic, gramatically accurate phrases to use in everyday life.
(Remember: C is usually pronounced K as in keep. U like O in wool, and O is pronounced like O in got.)
Nullo modo
No way
Fors fortis
Fat chance
Raptus regaliter
Royally screwed
Labra lege.
Read my lips.
Chariot bumper stickers
Sona si latine loqueris
Honk if you speak Latin
Si hoc adfixum in obicle legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.
If you can read this bumper
sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close.
Things to say to your psychiatrist
(It´s an advantage if you know a little Roman history if you want to get these.)
Intendum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum.
Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Quid agitur de matre mea?
What does my mother have to do with it?
I was kidnapped by aliens. What year is this?
Canis meus id comedit.
My dog ate it.
Sane ego te vocavi. Forstan capedictum tuum desit.
I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken.
Horologium manuale meum stitit.
My watch stopped.
Currus meus se movere noluit.
My car wouldn't start.
What to ask when at the Vatican
Ductine haec via ad Capellam Sextinam?
Is this the way to the Sistine Chapel?
Ecce lacunar mirum!
Now that's a ceiling!
Haecine taberna munusculorum unica est?
Is this the only gift shop?
Ubi possum potiri petasi similis isti?
Where can I get a hat like that?
Latin pick-up lines
Frequentasne hunc locum?
Do you come here often?
Nonne alicubi prius convenimus?
Haven't we met somewhere before?
Quo signo nata est?
What's your sign?
Apparet te habere ingenium profondum.
You strike me as a very deep person.
Credo fatum nos coegisse.
I think fate brought us together.
Apudne te vel me?
Your place or mine?
In a bar
Hoc ei propinabo!
I'll drink to that!
Caupo! Etiamnunc!
Bartender! Another round!
Da mihi sis...
I'll have...
...cerevisiam dilutam
....a light beer.
...poculum vini albi
....a glass of white wine.
...spiculum argenteum
....a martini.
Propino tibi salutem!
Cheers!