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One sentence of «Cappuccetto Rosso»


Sentence 15 of 43 · Cappuccetto Rosso, Carlo Collodi, after Charles Perrault, 1875

Io piglierò da questa parte, e tu da quell’altra, e faremo a chi arriva più presto.»

I shall take this way, and you that other one, and we shall see who gets there first.”

Where it stands

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

«Benissimo», disse il Lupo, «voglio venire a vederla anch’io.

“Very well,” said the Wolf, “I want to go and see her too.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Io ioI (pron.)
piglierò pigliareto take, to fetch (colloquial for prendere); mandare a pigliare — to send for (v.)
da dafrom, by; at, to (someone’s place); for (da tre giorni — for three days) (prep.)
questa questothis; questi — the latter, he (adj.)
parte parteside, direction (da quella parte — over that way); part (n., f.)
e eand (ed before a vowel) (conj.)
tu tuyou (singular, familiar) (pron.)
quell’ quellothat; those (quei, quella); quello che — what, that which (adj.)
altra altroother; che altro — what else; un altro — another (adj.)
faremo fareto do, to make; farsi — to become; far fare — to have something made; fo — old form of faccio (v.)
a ato, at; in (a before a vowel: ad) (prep.)
chi chiwho; whoever; some… others (pron.)
arriva arrivareto arrive, to come to (v.)
più piùmore; non … più — no longer, no more (adv.)
presto prestosoon, quickly, early (adv.)

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