Usages of interdum
Discipulus dicit: "Caelum specto, nam interdum est pulchrum."
The student says: "I look at the sky, for sometimes it is beautiful."
Soror interdum in oppido habitat.
The sister sometimes lives in the town.
Multi homines pacem amant, sed populus interdum bellum non timet.
Many people love peace, but the people sometimes do not fear war.
Etiam bona discipula interdum errat, sed mendum suum statim corrigit.
Even a good student sometimes makes a mistake, but she corrects her mistake at once.
Misericordia sine iustitia interdum iniqua videtur.
Mercy without justice sometimes seems unfair.
Poena severa interdum iniqua videtur.
A harsh punishment sometimes seems unfair.
Magna severitas pueros interdum terret, sed severitas sine ira discipulos docere potest.
Great strictness sometimes frightens boys, but strictness without anger can teach students.
Vulgus interdum falsae famae cito cedit.
The common crowd sometimes yields quickly to a false rumor.
Fit ut etiam fortes viatores interdum anxii sint, cum via longa et obscura sit.
It happens that even brave travelers are sometimes anxious, when the road is long and dark.
Prope speluncam cautius ambulatur, quia serpentes ibi interdum sibilare possunt.
Near the cave people walk more carefully, because snakes there can sometimes hiss.
“‘In’ praepositio est; interdum accusativum habet, interdum ablativum, ut iam scitis,” dicit magistra.
“‘In’ is a preposition; sometimes it takes the accusative, sometimes the ablative, as you already know,” says the teacher.
Rubor in cute interdum manet, etiam cum dolor iam minor est.
Redness sometimes remains on the skin, even when the pain is already less.
Vēritās interdum dolōrem affert, sed amicitiam servat.
The truth sometimes brings pain, but preserves friendship.
Alia terminatio in eodem verbo interdum personam mutat, non sensum totius sententiae.
A different ending in the same verb sometimes changes the person, not the meaning of the whole sentence.
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