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One sentence of «Cappuccetto Rosso»


Sentence 13 of 43 · Cappuccetto Rosso, Carlo Collodi, after Charles Perrault, 1875

«La sta laggiù, passato quel mulino, che si vede di qui, nella prima casa, al principio del villaggio.»

“She lives over there, past that mill you can see from here, in the first house at the beginning of the village.”

Where it stands

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«Oh, altro!», disse Cappuccetto Rosso.

“Oh, I should say so!” said Little Red Riding Hood.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
La lathe (feminine); her, it (object); she (Tuscan subject) (art.)
sta stareto stand, to stay, to be (stette — stood; stare a guardare — to stand looking) (v.)
laggiù laggiùover there, down there (adv.)
passato passareto pass; passi — let it stand; passare la notte — to spend the night (v.)
quel quellothat; those (quei, quella); quello che — what, that which (adj.)
mulino mulinomill (n., m.)
che chethat, which, who; what (che cosa); than (conj.)
si sioneself, himself, themselves (reflexive); one (impersonal: si vedeva — could be seen) (pron.)
vede vedereto see; vedersi — to find oneself; visto che — seeing that (v.)
di diof, from; than (also di’ — the imperative of dire, printed with an apostrophe) (prep.)
qui quihere (adv.)
nella nellain the (in + la) (art./prep.)
prima primabefore, earlier; first; la prima volta — the first time (adv.)
casa casahouse, home; Casa editrice — publishing house (n., f.)
al alto the, at the (a + il) (art./prep.)
principio principiobeginning, start (n., m.)
del delof the (di + il); some (art./prep.)
villaggio villaggiovillage (n., m.)

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