Usages of filia
Filius et filia in oppido habitant.
(The son and daughter live in the town.)
Filia aquam in horto petit.
(The daughter seeks water in the garden.)
Mater rogat filiam: "Quid nunc facis in cubiculo?"
Mother asks her daughter: "What are you doing now in the bedroom?"
Filia respondet: "Librum lego, quia foris dies frigidus est."
The daughter answers: "I am reading a book, because outside the day is cold."
Filia respondet: "Fortasse cras cum eis curram; nunc domi manere melius est."
The daughter answers: "Perhaps tomorrow I will run with them; now it is better to stay at home."
Mater filiam vocat et dicit: "Veni huc, quaeso, et mihi veritatem dic."
Mother calls her daughter and says: "Come here, please, and tell me the truth."
Quamquam pater iram sentit, tamen gaudium filiae manet.
Although father feels anger, nevertheless the joy of his daughter remains.
In silentio noctis filia in mente sua dicit: "Veritas matrem laetam facit, mendacium autem matrem tristem facit; iterum veritatem dicam."
In the silence of the night the daughter says in her mind: "Truth makes mother happy, but a lie makes mother sad; again I will tell the truth."
Mater filiae dicit: "Nunc sororem tuam iuvare debes."
Mother says to her daughter: "Now you must help your sister."
Mater filiam vocat, ut auxilium ferat et librum e mensa tollat.
Mother calls her daughter, so that she may bring help and take the book from the table.
Vespere pater lucernam accendit, ut filia in cubiculo legere possit.
In the evening father lights a lamp, so that his daughter can read in the bedroom.
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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