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One sentence of «Le arance d’oro»


Sentence 19 of 35 · Le arance d’oro, Luigi Capuana, 1882

— Maestà, non ci ho colpa.

“Majesty, it is not my fault.

Where it stands

The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.

È venuto un cardellino, si è posato sopra un ramo e si è messo a cantare.

A goldfinch came, perched on a branch and began to sing.

Canta, canta, canta, mi s’aggravavano gli occhi.

It sang and sang and sang, and my eyes grew heavy.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Maestà maestàmajesty; Maestà — Your Majesty (n., f.)
non nonnot (adv.)
ci cithere; us, ourselves; ci vuole — it takes, one needs (pron.)
ho avereto have (avea, aveano — old forms of aveva, avevano) (v.)
colpa colpafault, blame (n., f.)

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.

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