Usages of claudere
Mater vesperi fenestram claudit et domi manet.
In the evening mother closes the window and stays at home.
In cubiculo fenestra est, et puer eam vesperi claudit.
In the bedroom there is a window, and the boy closes it in the evening.
Mater autem dicit: "Noli ianuam claudere, quia hospes intus manet."
Mother, however, says: "Do not close the door, because the guest is staying inside."
Mater ianuam claudit ne infans foris exeat et ut domus tuta sit.
Mother closes the door so that the baby may not go outside and so that the house may be safe.
Pater portam urbis claudit vespere, ne hostes nocte taciti intrent.
Father closes the gate of the city in the evening, so that enemies may not enter silently at night.
Dominus servum iubet ianuam claudere, ut domus tuta sit.
The master orders the servant to close the door, so that the house may be safe.
Mater statim ianuam claudit.
Mother closes the door at once.
Postea puella fenestram claudit et in cubiculo quiete sedet.
Afterward the girl closes the window and sits quietly in the bedroom.
Servus statim ex atrio exit et ianuam claudit.
The servant immediately goes out of the atrium and closes the door.
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