Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar / to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language

by Ferdinando Bottarelli

1. 1. The gentlemen
   2. signóri
   3. are not yet come
   4. éssere ancóra veníre
   5. to see us.
   6. vedére.

1. 1. Women
   2. donna
   3. are
   4. very fair
   5. molto bióndo
   6. in the northern countries.
   7. settentrionále paése.

[1] Lo before nouns beginning with an s, and followed by another consonant. See Gram. p. 36.

[2] Essere instead of avere. See p. 84.

[3] Words in ù are indeclinable. See p. 50.

[4] The article il must be put before signore: except before ecclesiastical titles, when we must say Monsignor.

The English particle to, before infinitives, is sometimes rendered in Italian by the Article il or lo. [See Veneroni’s Grammar, p. 200.]

1. 1. It is forbidden
   2. éssere proibíre
   3. to do evil.
   4. fare male.

1. 1. It is not
   2. always convenient
   3. sempre convenévole
   4. to speak
   5. dire
   6. the truth.
   7. verità.