Life is a flame that smothers death. - English example sentence

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Selena777 August 28, 2015 August 28, 2015 at 7:46:12 PM UTC

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It seems like mistranslated sentence. I can't say anything about the Hebrew sentence, but the Esperanto one, which translation the Hebrew sentense is, means "Life is a flame that death smothers", not vice versa. Also it's more logical, cause a flame can be smothered, but a flame can't smother anything.

AlanF_US August 28, 2015 August 28, 2015 at 8:43:20 PM UTC

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In the Hebrew, the verb is feminine, which means that the subject is "flame" (which is feminine) rather than "death" (which is masculine). So that would suggest that the Hebrew (which I translated) is a mistranslation of the Esperanto. I'll leave a note pointing to this discussion on the Hebrew sentence.

Selena777 August 29, 2015 August 29, 2015 at 9:10:11 AM UTC

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Yes, if so, the Hebrew translation is not correct. Thanks.