OET interlinear MAT 20:6

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

δὲ

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: περί Δέ τήν ἑνδεκάτην ἐξελθών εὗρεν ἄλλους ἑστῶτας καί λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τήν ἡμέραν ἀργοί)

Here, the word Now introduces the next thing that happened. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces the next event, or you could leave Now untranslated. Alternate translation: [Then]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / go

ἐξελθὼν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: περί Δέ τήν ἑνδεκάτην ἐξελθών εὗρεν ἄλλους ἑστῶτας καί λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τήν ἡμέραν ἀργοί)

In a context such as this, your language might say “come” instead of gone. Alternate translation: [having come out]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

περὶ & τὴν ἑνδεκάτην

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: περί Δέ τήν ἑνδεκάτην ἐξελθών εὗρεν ἄλλους ἑστῶτας καί λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τήν ἡμέραν ἀργοί)

In this culture, people began counting the hours each day beginning around daybreak at six o’clock in the morning. So, the eleventh hour would be around five o’clock in the afternoon. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this in the way the people of your culture reckon time. See how you translated the similar time reference in [20:3](../20/03.md). Alternate translation: [about 5:00 PM]

Note 4 topic: translate-ordinal

τὴν ἑνδεκάτην

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: περί Δέ τήν ἑνδεκάτην ἐξελθών εὗρεν ἄλλους ἑστῶτας καί λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τήν ἡμέραν ἀργοί)

If your language does not use ordinal numbers, you could use a cardinal number here or an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: [hour eleven]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἄλλους ἑστῶτας & ὧδε ἑστήκατε & ἀργοί

others ˓having˒_stood & here ˱you_all˲_˓have˒_stood & idle

In Jesus’ culture, people would wait in the marketplace when they wanted to find work. If they had not yet found work, they would be standing idle. You could include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [others still looking for work … have you been standing here looking for work]

Note 6 topic: translate-tense

λέγει

˱he˲_˓is˒_saying

To call attention to a development in the story, Jesus uses the present tense in past narration. If it would not be natural to do that in your language, you could use the past tense in your translation. Alternate translation: [he said]

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

λέγει αὐτοῖς, τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἀργοί

˱he˲_˓is˒_saying ˱to˲_them (Some words not found in SR-GNT: περί Δέ τήν ἑνδεκάτην ἐξελθών εὗρεν ἄλλους ἑστῶτας καί λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τήν ἡμέραν ἀργοί)

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [he asks them why they had stood there idle the whole day.]