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One sentence of «Cappuccetto Rosso»


Sentence 10 of 43 · Cappuccetto Rosso, Carlo Collodi, after Charles Perrault, 1875

«Vo’ a vedere la mia nonna e a portarle una stiacciata, con questo vasetto di burro, che le manda la mamma mia».

“I am going to see my grandmother and to take her a flatbread, with this little pot of butter, which my mother is sending her.”

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Vo’ andarevo’ — I want (voglio) in Capuana’s tales; I am going (vado) in Collodi’s «Vo’ a vedere» (Tuscan truncation) (v.)
a ato, at; in (a before a vowel: ad) (prep.)
vedere vedereto see; vedersi — to find oneself; visto che — seeing that (v.)
la lathe (feminine); her, it (object); she (Tuscan subject) (art.)
mia miomy, mine; i miei — my own (adj.)
nonna nonnagrandmother, granny (n., f.)
e eand (ed before a vowel) (conj.)
portarle portareto carry, to bring; portare il lutto — to be in mourning (v.)
una unaa, an (feminine); one (art.)
stiacciata stiacciataflatbread, focaccia (Tuscan) (n., f.)
con conwith (prep.)
questo questothis; questi — the latter, he (adj.)
vasetto vasettolittle pot, small jar (n., m.)
di diof, from; than (also di’ — the imperative of dire, printed with an apostrophe) (prep.)
burro burrobutter (n., m.)
che chethat, which, who; what (che cosa); than (conj.)
le lethe (feminine plural); to her; them (f.) (art.)
manda mandareto send (mandare un saluto — to send a greeting; mandare a pigliare — to send for) (v.)
mamma mammamother, mum; mamma mia! — oh dear! (n., f.)

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