- I do not love
- amáre
- to play
- giuocáre
- at games of chances,
- giuóco azzardo
- as at cards,
- come carta
- or at dice,
- dadi
- but I love to play
- ma amáre giuocáre
- sometimes
- qualche volta
- at bowls,
- bocce
- at billiards,
- bigliárdo
- at tennis,
- pallacórda
- or at nine-pins.
- o birilli.
- Do you never play
- mai giuocáre
- at cards,
- carte
- at chess,
- scacchi
- or draughts?
- dama?
- I play
- giuocáre
- sometimes
- at piquet
- picchétto
- to please the company.
- far piacére compagnía.
Verbs governing an Accusative Case of the Person, and a Genitive of the Thing.
The verbs accusáre, biasimáre, avvertíre, and assólvere, will have the Accusative of the Person, and the Genitive of the Thing.
- One boy
- ragázzo
- accuses another
- accusáre altro
- of idleness;
- pigrízia
- the master hears
- maéstro sentíre
- their tales,
- stória
- but punishes
- ma puníre
- him only whom he thinks
- solaménte quello crédere
- guilty
- colpévole
- and deserving of punishment.
- degno castígo.
- Every one
- tutti
- blames you
- biasimáre
- for your
- negligence
- negligénza
- and ignorance.
- ignoránza.
- I often admonished you
- spesso avvertíre
- of your duty;
- vostro dovére
- if you do not improve
- se profittáre
- as well as others,
- come altro
- it is not my fault.
- non è colpa.
- When a judge acquits
- quando giúdice assólvere
- a man of a crime
- uno delítto
- he is guilty of,
- reo
- if he commits again
- se comméttere di nuovo
- the same fault,
- stesso fallo
- he deserves
- merita
- a double punishment.
- dóppio castígo.