Usages of currere
Frater foris currit, soror intus in villa manet.
The brother runs outside, the sister stays inside in the house.
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."
Mater respondet patri et dicit: "Puer foris currit."
Mother answers father and says: "The boy is running outside."
Pater rogat: "Cur domi manes et cum amicis non curris?"
Father asks: "Why do you stay at home and not run with your friends?"
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."
Servus statim currit et celer est, domina autem lente ambulat et tarda est.
The servant runs immediately and is quick, but the lady walks slowly and is slow.
Puer celer ad scholam currit, sed puella tarda domi manet et statim dormit.
The boy runs quickly to school, but the girl, being slow, stays at home and immediately sleeps.
Puer fessus est, tamen ad scholam currit.
The tired boy is tired, yet he runs to the school.
Unus homo in via solus ambulat; pluvia frigida cadit, igitur domum currit.
One person walks alone in the street; cold rain is falling, therefore he runs home.
Avia lente per pontem ambulat, et puer ad pontem currit ut aviam iuvet.
Grandmother walks slowly across the bridge, and the boy runs to the bridge so that he may help grandmother.
Magister cum discipulis in schola manet, ne pueri soli per viam domum currant; nam pueri ibi tuti sunt.
The teacher stays in the school with the students, so that the boys do not run home alone through the street; for there the boys are safe.
Puer tunicam puram induit et ad scholam currit.
The boy puts on a clean tunic and runs to the school.
Tabellarius per viam celeriter currit et epistulam in sacculo portat.
A letter-carrier runs quickly along the road and carries a letter in a bag.
Puer ex cubiculo currit et matrem vocat.
The boy runs out of the bedroom and calls his mother.
Puer capram vocat, sed capra ad ovem currit.
The boy calls the goat, but the goat runs to the sheep.
Postquam canis annulum capit, serva et vicina simul currunt et annulum uxori tradunt.
After the dog takes the ring, the female servant and the neighbor run together and hand the ring to the wife.
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