Of the Participle past.

When one of these Pronouns che, il, lo, la, &c. meets before the compound tenses, the Pronoun ought to agree with the Participle in gender and number.

    1. I received
    2. ricévere
    3. the books which
    4. libro
    5. my brother sent me;
    6. fratéllo mandáre
    7. I read them all,
    8. léggere tutto
    9. they are very good,
    10. éssere buóno
    11. and well written.
    12. bene scrítto.
    1. The letter which
    2. léttera
    3. my father wrote to me
    4. padre scrivere
    5. is very severe;
    6. éssere sevéro
    7. I showed it to
    8. mostráre
    9. my mother, and
    10. madre
    11. she is very sorry for it.
    12. [1]dispiacére.

[1] She is very sorry for it; glíene dispiáce moltíssimo.

When these Pronouns, mio, me, te, noi, voi, &c. are the case of the Verb, they must agree with the Participle in gender and in number.

    1. My dear friends,
    2. caro amíco
    3. I have always loved you
    4. avére sempre amáto
    5. like my children,
    6. come figlio
    7. I have often admonished you
    8. avére spesso ammoníre
    9. for your own good;
    10. proprio bene
    11. I have several times exhorted you
    12. spesse volte esortáre
    13. to practise virtue;
    14. praticáre virtù
    15. if
    16. se
    17. you are not
    18. truly virtuous,
    19. veraménte virtuóso
    20. it is not my fault.
    21. éssere colpa.
    1. I met your brother
    2. incontráre fratéllo
    3. this morning,
    4. mattína
    5. we embraced
    6. abbracciársi
    7. one another
    8. like good friends,
    9. da buóno amíco
    10. and I rejoice that
    11. rallegrársi
    12. we are reconciled.
    13. riconciliársi.
    1. The books which
    2. libro
    3. I have seen you reading
    4. avére vedére léggere
    5. are not good.
    6. buóno.

    1. These are
    2. ecco
    3. all the copies
    4. tutto cópia
    5. which you have given me
    6. avére dare
    7. to write.
    8. scrívere.
    1. Your brothers
    2. fratéllo
    3. have done
    4. fare
    5. quite the contrary of
    6. tutto contrário
    7. what I had advised them
    8. avére consigliáre
    9. to do.
    10. fare.