How to say "We must allow X to Do Y" or "We Mustn't Let X do Y"

Question

I'm trying to translate the following sentence: "We must not allow the facts to fade away into oblivion." In general, how do we write constructs like this? I think the construct would look something like "אסור לנו ל", but I'm not sure the word "אסור" fits here since the word "must" isn't used in a religious/legal sense, but in a purely ethical sense.

Answer 1

Shalom,

I would translate that sentence in Hebrew as so:

אָנוּ מוֹכרַחִים לֹא לְהַרְשׁוֹת לָעוּבדוֹת לִדְהוֹת אֶל תּוֹך הָאֲבַדּוֹן.

We must=אָנוּ מוֹכרַחִים

not allow= לֹא לְהַרְשׁוֹת

facts to fade away= לָעוּבדוֹת לִדְהוֹת

into אֶל תּוֹך

(the) oblivion הָאֲבַדּוֹן

Hope it helps :)

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