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One sentence of «Le arance d’oro»
Non vi mancava albero di sorta; ma il più raro e il più pregiato, era quello che produceva le arance d’oro.
No kind of tree was missing from it; but the rarest and most prized was the one that bore the golden oranges.
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Si racconta che c’era una volta un Re, il quale avea dietro il palazzo reale un magnifico giardino.
It is told that once upon a time there was a King who had, behind the royal palace, a magnificent garden.
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Non | non | not (adv.) |
| vi | vi | you, to you (plural, or polite to one person); there (literary for ci) (pron.) |
| mancava | mancare | to be lacking; mancare a — to fail in (v.) |
| albero | albero | tree (n., m.) |
| di | di | of, from; than (also di’ — the imperative of dire, printed with an apostrophe) (prep.) |
| sorta | sorta | sort, kind; di sorta — of any kind (n., f.) |
| ma | ma | but (conj.) |
| il | il | the (masculine singular) (art.) |
| più | più | more; non … più — no longer, no more (adv.) |
| raro | raro | rare (adj.) |
| e | e | and (ed before a vowel) (conj.) |
| pregiato | pregiato | prized, precious (adj.) |
| era | essere | to be; c’è, c’era — there is, there was (son, saran — clipped forms of sono, saranno) (v.) |
| quello | quello | that; those (quei, quella); quello che — what, that which (adj.) |
| che | che | that, which, who; what (che cosa); than (conj.) |
| produceva | produrre | to produce, to bear (fruit) (v.) |
| le | le | the (feminine plural); to her; them (f.) (art.) |
| arance | arancia | orange (the fruit) (n., f.) |
| d’ | d’ | of, from (di, elided before a vowel) (prep.) |
| oro | oro | gold (d’oro — of gold, golden) (n., m.) |
Read «Le arance d’oro» in the room Every word glossed where it stands, the English a tap away. This scene asks for no account.