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] We also make use of the imperfect tense, when we speak in time past of the habitual qualities and actions of any person alive or dead.

The Perfect Definite is a Tense perfectly past, and often determined by an Adverb of time past.

1. 1. Where
   2. dove
   3. did you go
   4. andáre
   5. yesterday,
   6. jéri
   7. that
   8. you were not
   9. éssere
   10. at home,
   11. when
   12. quando
   13. I went
   14. veníre
   15. to see you?
   16. vedére?

1. 1. I went to see
   2. andáre vedére
   3. Mr. N.
   4. il signór
   5. who is not well.
   6. stare

1. 1. Did you meet with
   2. trováre
   3. any company
   4. compagnía
   5. there?

1. 1. Yes, sir, I met with
   2. his uncle
   3. zio
   4. and three of
   5. tre
   6. his sisters.
   7. sorélla.

1. 1. What was
   2. quale éssere
   3. the subject of
   4. soggetto
   5. your conversation?
   6. conversazíone?

1. 1. We spoke of
   2. parláre
   3. many
   4. molto
   5. different things.
   6. differénte cosa.

1. 1. Did you speak
   2. Italian
   3. Italiáno
   4. with them?

Yes, all our conversation was in Italian.