These examples show us that just as the various Romance language descended from Latin, English, Swedish, German, and many other languages, descended from own common ancestor known as Proto-Germanic spoken around 500BCE.
这些例子告诉我们,就像各种各样的罗曼语是由拉丁语而衍生出的一样,英语、瑞典语、德语以及很多其他语言,都源自于它们共同的祖先——古日耳曼语,其大概在公元前500年的时候被使用。