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Anonymous
February 23, 2015

Push vs Pushes

I'm having trouble translating the phrase "You will push harder than the world pushes back." I can't seem to properly translate the word "pushes". Any help? Thanks.

Category: Translation


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paarthurnax
Administrator
February 23, 2015

The difference between "push" and "pushes" is something called conjugation, or how verbs change form. Here are the English conjugations of "to push":

I push
We push
You push
He/She/It pushes
They push

By contrast, verbs in the dragon language don't conjugate according to the subject at all. Here is a translation of the above list:

Zu'u dah
Mu dah
Rok/Rek/Nii dah
Nust dah

So, a final translation of that line may look something like this: Hi fen dah lot wah lein dah ko daal "You will push greatly to/against the world pushing in return."