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

Degnársi is often used for to be so kind as, and requires the following verb in the Infinitive Mood.

1. 1. Be so kind as
   2. degnáre
   3. to hear me a moment,
   4. sentíre moménto
   5. and you will see that
   6. vedére
   7. what they told you of me
   8. dire
   9. is a false report.
   10. éssere falso rappórto.

1. 1. Be so kind as
   2. degnáre
   3. to grant me that favour,
   4. accordáre favóre
   5. and I will not trouble you
   6. incomodáre
   7. any more.

Posso appéna, I can hardly, requires the following verb to be in the Infinitive Mood.

1. 1. I can hardly
   2. posso appéna
   3. believe
   4. crédere
   5. what you tell me
   6. dire
   7. of Mr. Gregory,
   8. signóre Gregório
   9. for I always took him for
   10. perchè sempre crédere
   11. a very sober honest man.
   12. sobrio onésto uómo.

1. 1. I could hardly
   2. potere appéna
   3. believe my eyes
   4. crédere ócchio
   5. when I saw you,
   6. quando vedére
   7. for I thought
   8. perchè pensáre
   9. you were in America.
   10. éssere América.

1. 1. I have got such a cold,
   2. éssere talmente infreddáto
   3. and my head is
   4. testa
   5. so heavy, that
   6. pesánte
   7. I can hardly
   8. potere appéna
   9. read a word.
   10. leggere paróla.

Scarce, or hardly must likewise be expressed by appéna.

1. 1. Scarce
   2. appéna
   3. were you gone out
   4. éssere uscíto
   5. last night,
   6. jéri sera
   7. when your friend,
   8. che amíco
   9. sir William Henry,
   10. cavaliére Guglielmo Enrico
   11. came to see me,
   12. veníre vedere
   13. and was very sorry
   14. dispiacere
   15. you did not stay
   16. restáre
   17. a little longer.
   18. poco più.

1. 1. There are
   2. éssere
   3. men in the world
   4. uómo mondo
   5. who are so much
   6. éssere tanto
   7. used to do mischief,
   8. avvézzo fare male
   9. that they are
   10. éssere
   11. hardly
   12. appéna
   13. out of trouble,
   14. uscíto impáccio
   15. but they immediately fall
   16. che súbito cadére
   17. into another.
   18. altro.