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 was going to
   2. andáre
   3. your house;
   4. but since I met you,
   5. ma giacchè incontráre
   6. we will go to
   7. andáre
   8. my house,
   9. where we shall dine.
   10. dove pranzáre.

1. 1. I beg you will excuse me,
   2. pregáre scusáre
   3. indeed I cannot;
   4. in verità non potére
   5. for I must go to
   6. bisógno andáre
   7. my lady Arabella’s,
   8. signóra Arabélla
   9. to pay a visit to
   10. fare vísita
   11. her children.
   12. figlio.

1. 1. They are not at home,
   2. éssere casa
   3. for
   4. perchè
   5. I saw them
   6. vedere
   7. going into the park.
   8. andáre parco.

1. 1. Let us go then
   2. andáre dunque
   3. and see if
   4. vedére se
   5. your brothers are
   6. fratéllo
   7. at home.
   8. casa.

1. 1. They are not,
   2. éssere
   3. I know they are
   4. sapére éssere
   5. gone a hunting.
   6. andáto cáccia.

1. 1. What is the matter
   2. cosa ha
   3. with you,
   4. sir?
   5. signóre
   6. You seem to be
   7. parére essere
   8. grieved.
   9. afflítto.

1. 1. O no, sir,
   2. I am not,
   3. non sono afflítto
   4. but I come from
   5. veníre
   6. Mr. Vincent’s,
   7. Vincenzo
   8. who is very ill.
   9. ammaláto.

1. 1. You surprise me,
   2. sorprendere
   3. for as I was coming
   4. perchè veníre
   5. from my house,
   6. casa
   7. I met his brother,
   8. incontráre fratéllo
   9. who did not mention it
   10. parlare
   11. to me.

1. 1. Do you know
   2. sapére
   3. from whence he was coming,
   4. di dove veníre
   5. when you met him?
   6. quando incontráre?