Thread:User talk:CodeCat/vale and valet

vale and valet
As it seems like you didn't understand the comment "PoS of an English translation does not determine Latin PoS":

The part of speech of an English translation does not determine the part of speech of a foreign word, in this case of a Latin word. Maybe this is an more obvious example for you: German "Sei gegrüßt!" literally means "Be greeted!". You can translate it with an English interjection like "Hello!", but the German still is an verbal expression (using a helping verb and a participle). Similary Latin "vale" and "valete" are just verb forms (more precisely, imperative forms) and no interjections even though they are commonly translated into English by an interjection. This also explains why the "interjection" has a singular and a plural form. Furthermore, even common dictionaries do not state that "vale" and "valete" are interjections, but simply mention that some verb forms (vale, valete, valeas) are translated as "farewell". -84.161.1.135 08:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)