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Sentence #32767

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 Scott Scott June 4, 2010 June 4, 2010 at 3:11:55 PM UTC link Permalink

You're right, to wife is not a verb.

blay_paul blay_paul June 4, 2010 June 4, 2010 at 3:35:35 PM UTC link Permalink

Actually, it can be.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wife

However in this case the correct version is wive (which can also be a verb)

http://oaks.nvg.org/lg6ra5.html

"First thrive and then wive," anyway, as a British proverb has it.

Scott Scott June 4, 2010 June 4, 2010 at 7:46:43 PM UTC link Permalink

It was probably a translation of that proverb. Added as 2nd translation.

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➜ #195594まず商売を繁昌させてから妻をめとれ。

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First thrive and then wife.

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First thrive and then take a wife.

edited by Scott, June 4, 2010
➜ #766116Najpierw coś osiągnij, a potem szukaj żony.

linked by jeedrek, March 13, 2015
➜ #5624252Primero progresar y luego tomar esposa.

linked by albrusgher, November 20, 2016