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 do not believe so,
   2. crédere
   3. unless
   4. a meno che
   5. you have learned
   6. avére
   7. all the rules of the grammar.
   8. tutto régola grammática.

1. 1. Though
   2. benchè
   3. I did not learn them,
   4. imparáre
   5. yet
   6. pure
   7. I will take so much pains,
   8. pigliáre tanto pena
   9. that what I told you
   10. dire
   11. will prove true.
   12. éssere vero.

1. 1. It will be some time
   2. vi vorrà del tempo
   3. before
   4. prima che
   5. you have read them.
   6. léggere.

1. 1. Would to God
   2. volésse Iddío
   3. I had known you
   4. conóscere
   5. sooner,
   6. I should speak
   7. parláre
   8. Italian well now:
   9. Italiáno bene ora
   10. and although
   11. benchè
   12. I had learned
   13. imparáre
   14. when I was young,
   15. éssere gióvine
   16. yet I knew
   17. sapére
   18. but very little of it,
   19. pochíssimo
   20. when I began with you.
   21. quando principiáre.

1. 1. Perhaps
   2. forse
   3. it was not
   4. éssere
   5. your master’s fault;
   6. maéstro colpa
   7. for before
   8. prima che
   9. I composed my grammar,
   10. compórre grammática
   11. I found but few
   12. trováre poco
   13. that would learn grammatically.
   14. imparáre grammaticalménte.

1. 1. It is true
   2. vero
   3. I had a very good master,
   4. avére buóno maéstro
   5. and if I had
   6. se avére
   7. believed him,
   8. crédere
   9. I should have learned
   10. avére imparáto
   11. by rules,
   12. per principj
   13. but I found them
   14. ma trováre
   15. too tedious;
   16. troppo nojóso
   17. and would to Heaven
   18. volésse Cielo
   19. I had followed
   20. avére seguito
   21. his advice,
   22. consíglio
   23. for
   24. perchè
   25. I have a great desire
   26. avére gran voglia
   27. to speak Italian.
   28. parláre Italiáno.

Some Verbs signifying will, desire, leave, or fear, will have the Conjunction che after them, and the following Verb in the Subjunctive.

1. 1. I will leave you
   2. lasciáre
   3. to do that.
   4. fare.