Ego nescio quis verum dicat, sed omnes sperant rem sine mora finem habituram esse.

Yes. Nescio by itself already means I do not know.

Latin often leaves subject pronouns out unless they are needed for emphasis, contrast, or clarity. So:

• nescio = I do not know
• ego nescio = I do not know, with extra emphasis on I

Here ego may suggest contrast or emphasis, something like As for me, I do not know...

Here quis is the interrogative pronoun, meaning who?

After verbs like nescio, Latin often introduces an indirect question:

• nescio quis... = I do not know who...

This is different from the relative pronoun qui, which would usually mean who/which in the sense of the person who.

So:

• quis dicat = who is speaking / who may be speaking
• qui dicat would not be the normal form here for an indirect question

Because quis verum dicat is an indirect question, and Latin normally puts the verb of an indirect question in the subjunctive.

So:

• direct question: Quis verum dicit? = Who speaks the truth?
• indirect question: Nescio quis verum dicat. = I do not know who speaks the truth.

This is a very common rule in Latin: indirect questions take the subjunctive.

Dicat is present subjunctive active, third person singular, from dico.

In an indirect question after a present main verb like nescio, the present subjunctive often represents action that is happening at the same time as the main verb, or is general in sense.

So nescio quis verum dicat means roughly:

• I do not know who is speaking the truth
• or more generally, I do not know who speaks the truth

Verum is the neuter singular of verus, meaning true. Here it is being used substantively, meaning the true thing or simply the truth.

So:

• verum dicere = literally to say what is true
• idiomatically: to speak the truth

Latin often uses a neuter adjective this way.

Yes, Latin can use veritas, veritatis for truth, and veritatem dicere is also possible in many contexts.

But verum dicere is a very natural and common Latin expression meaning to tell the truth or to say what is true.

So verum here is not strange; it is a normal idiomatic choice.

Omnes means all (people) or everyone.

It is nominative plural, and it is the subject of sperant:

• omnes sperant = everyone hopes / all hope

Because it refers to people without naming them, it works almost like a pronoun here.

After verbs of thinking, saying, knowing, perceiving, and often hoping, Latin commonly uses an accusative-and-infinitive construction for a subordinate statement.

So after sperant, instead of saying something like they hope that... with a finite verb, Latin says:

• sperant rem ... habituram esse

This is called indirect statement.

Its basic pattern is:

• accusative subject + infinitive verb

So Latin expresses they hope that the matter will... by putting rem in the accusative and using the infinitive phrase habituram esse.

Because rem is the subject of the infinitive in the indirect statement.

In English we say:

• they hope that the matter will have an end

In Latin, the subject of that subordinate statement becomes accusative:

• rem ... habituram esse

So even though rem is the logical subject of habituram esse, it appears in the accusative because that is how Latin indirect statement works.

Habituram esse is the future active infinitive of habeo for a feminine singular subject.

It is made from:

• the future participle: habituram
• plus esse

This means to be going to have or more simply will have.

Because the subject is rem and res is feminine, the participle must be feminine singular:

• res → accusative rem
• therefore habituram esse, not habiturum esse

Because the future active infinitive is built from a future participle, and participles behave like adjectives. That means they must agree with the noun they describe in gender, number, and case.

Here:

• rem = feminine singular accusative
• therefore habituram = feminine singular accusative

If the subject were masculine singular, you would get habiturum esse. If plural, the form would change again.

Finem is the direct object of habituram esse.

Literally:

• rem finem habituram esse = that the matter is going to have an end

So:

• rem = the matter, thing, affair
• finem = an end
• habituram esse = will have

This is a fairly literal Latin way to say that something will come to an end.

Latin often expresses ideas with noun + verb combinations where English might prefer a single verb.

So:

• finem habere = literally to have an end
• idiomatically: to come to an end, to end

This is perfectly understandable Latin, even if English would usually phrase it differently.

Sine mora is a prepositional phrase:

• sine = without
• mora = ablative singular of mora, meaning delay

The preposition sine takes the ablative, so mora must be ablative.

Together the phrase means:

• without delay
• without hesitation
• soon / promptly, depending on context

It most naturally modifies the idea of habituram esse:

• rem sine mora finem habituram esse
• that the matter will have an end without delay

In other words, the ending is expected to happen soon or promptly.

Because Latin word order is flexible, sine mora can be placed between other words without changing its basic connection.

To an English speaker, yes, it may feel unusual, but it is normal Latin.

Latin often places words for emphasis or rhythm rather than following a fixed English-like order. The core structure is:

• rem = subject of the infinitive
• finem = object
• habituram esse = infinitive
• sine mora = adverbial phrase

A more mechanically arranged version might look like:

• omnes sperant rem finem sine mora habituram esse

But the original order is perfectly acceptable Latin.

Habituram by itself is a future participle, not a complete infinitive. To make the future active infinitive, Latin normally uses:

• future participle + esse

So:

• habituram = about to have / going to have as a participle
• habituram esse = to be going to have, i.e. will have in indirect statement

The esse is necessary for the full infinitive construction.

Because the two verbs require different kinds of subordinate construction.

• nescio introduces a question: I do not know who...
• sperant introduces a statement of what is hoped: they hope that...

So Latin uses:

• indirect question after nescio → quis verum dicat
• indirect statement after sperant → rem ... habituram esse

This is a very useful distinction to learn, because Latin handles these two patterns differently.

Yes, depending on context, spero can sometimes lean toward expect as well as hope.

Its basic idea is positive expectation. So:

• omnes sperant = everyone hopes
• in some contexts: everyone expects

If the meaning has already been provided to the learner, it is still worth noticing that spero can cover a range from hope to confident expectation.

Yes. This sentence is a good review of two major Latin constructions:

1. Indirect question

   • nescio quis verum dicat
   • introduced by a question word
   • verb in the subjunctive

2. Indirect statement

   • omnes sperant rem sine mora finem habituram esse
   • accusative subject + infinitive
   • here the infinitive is future: habituram esse

If you can recognize those two patterns, most of the grammar of the sentence becomes much easier.