Tricks for Translating Old English
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Description: Gives tips for making the translation of Old English easier. These tricks involve an understanding of certain grammatical constructions that are very common in Old English: modal plus infinitive, partitive genitive, locative dative, and the "ge" prefix of verbs. By Michael Drout.
Now that you have mastered the fundamentals of Old English grammar, you are ready to learn a few tricks for translating that will make your tasks easier. The modal plus infinitive combination is very common in Old English poetry. Remember a modal is a helping verb such as "could," "would," "should," or "must." While in Modern English a modal would be followed by a verb in the correct number for the subject ("I should go to the store"), Old English speakers would use an infinitive ("I should to go to the store"). Remember that the infinitive ends in "an" or "ian."
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