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

[14] Before the names of men and women, we use al, alla, allo, a, &c.

[15] We use de’ before pronouns that are joined with substantives. See Veneroni’s Grammar, p. 201.

Construction of Adjectives.

The Adjectives expressing desire, knowledge, remembrance, ignorance, forgetting, care, fear, guilt, or any passion of the mind, require the following Noun to be in the Genitive case.

1. 1. Those who
   2. quello
   3. are desirous of
   4. éssere bramóso
   5. honour,
   6. onóre
   7. are studious of learning
   8. studióso sciénza
   9. and of good manners.
   10. buóno costúme.

1. 1. He who is not
   2. mindful of
   3. badáre
   4. his own business,
   5. própio affáre
   6. cannot be
   7. non può
   8. mindful of
   9. badare
   10. other people’s.
   11. altro.

1. 1. Thou and I are
   2. guilty of
   3. colpévole
   4. the same error.
   5. stesso errore.

1. 1. I am ignorant
   2. ignoráre
   3. of the fact
   4. fatto
   5. you mention.
   6. mentionáre.

Adjectives expressing plenty, or want, as poor, destitute, empty, full, void, require the Genitive case after them.

1. 1. He whose
   2. purse
   3. borsa
   4. is empty of money,
   5. vuóto danáro
   6. has a house
   7. avére casa
   8. empty of friends.
   9. vuóto amíco.