Usages of filius
Filius et filia in oppido habitant.
(The son and daughter live in the town.)
Filius vinum non bibit, sed aquam petit.
(The son does not drink wine, but asks for water.)
Agricola in agris multum laborat, sed filius in horto ludit.
(The farmer works a lot in the fields, but the son plays in the garden.)
Filius in horto saepe ludit.
The son often plays in the garden.
Filius ad oppidum fugit.
The son flees to the town.
Pater rogat: "Ubi curritis, filii, foris in via?"
Father asks: "Where are you running, children, outside on the road?"
Filii respondent: "Nunc foris currimus, sed soror intus legit."
The children answer: "Now we run outside, but our sister reads inside."
Pater dicit filio: "Aperi ianuam, quaeso, et deinde in lecto sede."
Father says to his son: "Open the door, please, and then sit on the bed."
Filius in horto ludit, soror autem in domo legit.
The son plays in the garden, but the sister reads in the house.
Mater filio dicit eum tunicam puram induere oportere.
Mother tells her son that he must put on a clean tunic.
Filius matri parere non vult, sed filia matri statim paret.
The son does not want to obey his mother, but the daughter obeys her mother at once.
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