"Time flies."
Translation:Tempo flugas.
July 16, 2015
7 Comments
An alternate (better) translation: "tempo fuĝas" "flies" as in "runs away" rather than "travels through the air."
July 16, 2015
Laŭ PIV,
- fuĝ/i: Forkuri por savi sin de reala aŭ imagata danĝero.
- flug/i: (4) Iri tre rapide.
Do, la verbo flugi ĉi tie estas pli bona. :)
August 9, 2015
Rae.F
1894
Agreed. "Flies" in an English-language idiom that means "passes quickly". The original Latin is "tempus fugit", which is where our word "fugitive" comes from. Time flees, it escapes us, it gets away from us irretrievably.
August 15, 2017
Tempo flugas kiel sago, kaj frukta muŝo ŝatas bananon... OK... Maybe it doesn't translate with the same charm
January 26, 2017
Rae.F
- 1894
I think so. The expression comes from the Latin "tempus fugit" and is at least 2,000 years old. Granted, the more literal translation is "time flees", but they're pretty closely related.
December 22, 2017
