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. I am not twenty
   2. avére venti
   3. yet.
   4. ancóra.

On the Verb Substantive éssere. The Verb Substantive éssere requires the following noun in the Nominative Case.

1. 1. Our master
   2. nostro maestro
   3. is diligent;
   4. éssere diligénte
   5. but I have been hitherto
   6. éssere stato sinóra
   7. very idle;
   8. pigro
   9. I have done as
   10. avére fatto come
   11. the drones.
   12. cacchióne.

1. 1. I have lost
   2. avére pérdere
   3. my parents’ love,
   4. genitóre affetto
   5. who always provided
   6. che mi hanno sempre forníre
   7. all things necessary for me:
   8. tutto necessário
   9. I have been unworthy
   10. éssere stato indégno
   11. of their care;
   12. cura
   13. but I will deserve
   14. ma volére meritáre
   15. to be called
   16. éssere chiamáre
   17. the most diligent
   18. diligénte
   19. of all our scholars
   20. tutto scoláro
   21. for the time to come.
   22. all’avveníre.

1. 1. The lion
   2. leóne
   3. is accounted
   4. passáre per
   5. the most generous of animals,
   6. generóso animale
   7. because
   8. perchè
   9. he is more placable
   10. placábile
   11. than the others.
   12. altro.

1. 1. The sanguinary minds
   2. sanguinário animo
   3. of some men
   4. uómo
   5. are more barbarous
   6. éssere barbaro
   7. than wild beasts.
   8. fíera
   9. Man is a creature
   10. Uómo creatúra
   11. of upright body:
   12. dritto corpo
   13. when he is old,
   14. quando vécchio
   15. his body bends
   16. corpo inchinársi
   17. towards the earth;
   18. verso terra
   19. and his soul ascends
   20. ánima ascéndere
   21. to heaven,
   22. ciélo
   23. which is his habitation
   24. for ever.
   25. dimóra.

1. 1. How are you
   2. come stare
   3. this morning?
   4. mattína?
   5. I am very well,
   6. stare beníssimo
   7. thank you.
   8. grazie.

1. 1. How do your
   2. [1]stare
   3. father
   4. padre
   5. and mother
   6. madre
   7. do?

1. 1. I hope
   2. speráre
   3. my father is well.
   4. padre stare bene
   5. He was well
   6. the last time
   7. último volta
   8. I saw him,
   9. vedére
   10. but my mother
   11. ma madre
   12. has not been well
   13. éssere stato bene
   14. these two or three days.
   15. [2]due tre giórno
   16. And how are you, sir?
   17. stare signóre?