avia

the grandmother

Usages of avia

• Avia capillos longos et oculos claros habet.: Grandmother has long hair and bright eyes.
• Avia, quae puellam amat, capillos pueri spectat et oculos eius laudat.: The grandmother, who loves the girl, looks at the boy's hair and praises his eyes.
• Nocte obscura avia prope lucernam sedet et cantat.: On a dark night the grandmother sits near the lamp and sings.
• Puella parva aviam audit, quae cantat, et lucernam obscuram spectat.: The little girl listens to her grandmother, who is singing, and looks at the dim lamp.
• Avia pueros rogat: "Quomodo hodie vos sentitis?": Grandmother asks the boys: "How do you feel today?"
• Puella matrem rogat: "Quando fenestram aperies, et ubi avia cantabit?": The girl asks mother: "When will you open the window, and where will grandmother sing?"
• Mater respondet: "Nonne avia in horto cantabit, ubi luna et stellae lucent? Nunc fenestram aperio, ita lucerna clara erit.": Mother answers: "Won’t grandmother sing in the garden, where the moon and stars shine? Now I am opening the window, so the lamp will be bright."
• Puer fessus matrem rogat: "Quid hodie in horto facere possumus, si avia non cantat?": The tired boy asks mother: "What can we do in the garden today, if grandmother does not sing?"
• Mater respondet: "Nonne potestis ludere aut legere? Quomodo sine avia tristes esse potestis?": Mother answers: "Can you not play or read? How can you be sad without grandmother?"
• Heri avia puero tunicam longam et calceos calidos dabat.: Yesterday grandmother was giving the boy a long tunic and warm shoes.
• Olim avia quoque cum eis saepe saltabat, sed nunc adhuc lente ambulat.: Once grandmother also often used to dance with them, but now she still walks slowly.
• Avia in horto ambulat.: Grandmother walks in the garden.
• Avia solum in horto ambulat.: Grandmother walks only in the garden.
• Puer dicit: "Ego quoque aviam iuvare debeo, quamquam iam fessa est.": The boy says: "I also ought to help grandmother, although she is already tired."
• 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.
• Puer solus in cubiculo sedet ut aviam in horto audire possit.: The boy sits alone in the bedroom so that he can hear grandmother in the garden.
• Domi tacemus, ut aviam audire possimus.: At home we are silent, so that we can hear grandmother.
• Puer in carru sedet, et mater dicit se ad villam aviae ire.: The boy sits in the cart, and mother says that she is going to grandmother’s villa.
• Avia respondet lanam utilem esse, quia ex lana tunicam texere potest.: Grandmother answers that wool is useful, because from wool she can weave a tunic.
• Puella quaerit quomodo avia tunicam texat, dum avia in sella sedet.: The girl asks how grandmother weaves a tunic, while grandmother sits on a chair.
• Mater carrum parat, ut puer ad villam aviae ire possit.: Mother prepares the cart, so that the boy can go to grandmother’s villa.

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