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Malsahqogein
July 2, 2017

Translation for 'Once'

I've been working on translating one of my favorite quotes, "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more." I've figured out a bunch of it, but I've hit a roadblock in translating "Once". The notes that come with the translation(I'm a beginner in Dovahzul, so I use the translator alot) indicate that it is not the proper translation I'm looking for. It says that "ont" is used to indicate something that happened in the past, so what might I use as a suitable substitute? 

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Frinmulaar
July 2, 2017

The temporal nuance of the quote is indeed a challenge to known draconic. I read an emphasis in the vein of "we have fought this battle before, and did well that time, but alas we must do so again, therefore let us succeed or die". That meaning might be conveyed as follows:

Krif daar tiid vahrukiva vod, fahdon.
Fight (at) this occasion to-commemorate (the) times.past, friend(s).


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Malsahqogein
July 3, 2017

Kogaan, Frinmulaar. That helps alot.