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] When we inquire after any one’s health, we make use of the verb stare, instead of fare.

[2] These two or three days, i. e. da due o tre giorni in quà.

[3] If I had money, Se avessi danari, and not avevo.

[4] When we speak of the weather, we use the third person singular of the verb fare, instead of the verb éssere.

[5] Use the optative mood, and say, vorrei.

Personal Verbs governing a Genitive Case.

The Verb aver pietà governs the Genitive.

1. 1. I have no pity
   2. avére pietà
   3. on the misery
   4. della miséria
   5. of those, who
   6. being young and strong,
   7. éssere gióvine forte
   8. love better
   9. amáre
   10. to beg
   11. accattáre
   12. from door to
   13. porta
   14. door,
   15. than to work
   16. in che lavoráre
   17. for their bread;
   18. per guadagnarsi pane
   19. but I pity much
   20. ma avére pietà
   21. the blind,
   22. ciéco
   23. and old people,
   24. i vecchi
   25. who are incapable
   26. éssere incapáce
   27. of doing any thing for
   28. fare alcuna cosa
   29. their living.
   30. vitto.

1. 1. I pity my brother,
   2. avére pietà fratéllo
   3. I pity
   4. his folly,
   5. pazzia
   6. for he has wasted
   7. perchè dilapidáre
   8. all the fortune
   9. tutto patrimonio
   10. my father left him.
   11. padre lasciáre.

The verb burlarsi governs the Genitive.