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One sentence of «Cappuccetto Rosso»


Sentence 7 of 43 · Cappuccetto Rosso, Carlo Collodi, after Charles Perrault, 1875

E passando per un bosco s’imbatté in quella buona lana del Lupo, il quale avrebbe avuto una gran voglia di mangiarsela; ma poi non ebbe il coraggio di farlo, a motivo di certi taglialegna che erano lì nella foresta.

And passing through a wood she ran into that rascal the Wolf, who would have very much liked to eat her up; but then he did not have the courage to do it, because of certain woodcutters who were there in the forest.

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Cappuccetto Rosso, senza farselo dire due volte, partì per andare dalla sua nonna, la quale stava in un altro villaggio.

Little Red Riding Hood, without needing to be told twice, set off to go to her grandmother’s, who lived in another village.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
E eand (ed before a vowel) (conj.)
passando passareto pass; passi — let it stand; passare la notte — to spend the night (v.)
per perfor, through, in order to; per terra — on the ground (prep.)
un una, an (masculine; un’ before a feminine vowel) (art.)
bosco boscowood, forest (n., m.)
s’ s’oneself, himself (si, elided before a vowel) (pron.)
imbatté imbattereimbattersi in — to run into, to come across (v.)
in inin, into; in sella — in the saddle (prep.)
quella quellothat; those (quei, quella); quello che — what, that which (adj.)
buona buonogood (saresti buono a — would you be able to) (adj.)
lana lanawool; buona lana — a rascal, a bad lot (n., f.)
del delof the (di + il); some (art./prep.)
Lupo lupowolf (n., m.)
il ilthe (masculine singular) (art.)
quale qualewhich; davanti alla quale — in front of which (pron.)
avrebbe avereto have (avea, aveano — old forms of aveva, avevano) (v.)
una unaa, an (feminine); one (art.)
gran grandebig, great; gran — great (before a noun) (adj.)
voglia vogliadesire, wish; aver voglia di — to feel like (n., f.)
di diof, from; than (also di’ — the imperative of dire, printed with an apostrophe) (prep.)
mangiarsela mangiareto eat (v.)
ma mabut (conj.)
poi poithen, afterwards; e poi — besides (adv.)
non nonnot (adv.)
coraggio coraggiocourage; farsi coraggio — to take heart (n., m.)
farlo 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.)
motivo motivoreason, motive; a motivo di — because of (n., m.)
certi certocertain, a certain; certo — certainly; a una cert’ora — at a certain hour (adj.)
taglialegna taglialegnawoodcutter (n., m.)
che chethat, which, who; what (che cosa); than (conj.)
erano essereto be; c’è, c’era — there is, there was (son, saran — clipped forms of sono, saranno) (v.)
lì lìthere; di lì a poco — shortly after (adv.)
nella nellain the (in + la) (art./prep.)
foresta forestaforest (n., f.)

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