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.
Avia per scalas lente ambulat, et puer prope gradus eam exspectat.
Grandmother walks slowly on the stairs, and the boy waits for her near the steps.
Avia per scalas lente ambulat, et puer eam ducit.
Grandmother walks slowly on the stairs, and the boy leads her.
Hieme avia frigus timet et domi manet.
In winter grandmother fears the cold and stays at home.
Avia ridet et dicit se paucos dentes habere, sed adhuc panem edere posse.
Grandmother laughs and says that she has few teeth, but can still eat bread.
Avia servam monet ut pannum mundum ad mensam ferat.
Grandmother warns the female servant to bring a clean cloth to the table.
Avia de scalis lente descendit.
Grandmother comes down the stairs slowly.
Apud aviam nobis semper panis et mel dulce sunt.
At grandmother’s house we always have bread and sweet honey.
Apud aviam puella fabulam audit.
At grandmother’s house the girl listens to a story.
Avia dicit amicitiam bonam vitam laetiorem facere.
Grandmother says that good friendship makes life happier.
Avia puero flenti dicit cor eius bonum esse et lacrimas eius tergit.
Grandmother tells the crying boy that his heart is good and wipes his tears.
Avia in horto cantans a puella libenter auditur.
Grandmother, singing in the garden, is gladly heard by the girl.
Avia sedens in sella fabulam narrat.
Grandmother, sitting in a chair, tells a story.
Avia dicit amicitiam bonam servandam esse.
Grandmother says that good friendship must be preserved.
Avia omnibus pacem optat.
Grandmother wishes peace to everyone.
Avia dicit radices aquam petere, sed ramos solem quaerere.
Grandmother says that roots seek water, but branches seek the sun.
Discipula scribit se apud aviam didicisse quomodo ramum fractum tollere et radices servare debeat.
The female student writes that she has learned at grandmother’s house how she ought to remove a broken branch and preserve the roots.
Post cenam avia infantes curat et parvum puerum in lecto ponit.
After dinner grandmother takes care of the children and puts the little boy in bed.
Avia vespere in horto cantare solet.
Grandmother usually sings in the garden in the evening.
Avia dicit nuces bonas esse, sed infanti tantum pirum dari oportere.
Grandmother says that nuts are good, but that only a pear ought to be given to the baby.
Nisi panis recens est, avia eum emere non vult.
Unless the bread is fresh, grandmother does not want to buy it.
Avia ridens dicit se ad idem pistrinum cras redituram esse, si pistor aliam placentam servaverit.
Grandmother, laughing, says that she will return to the same bakery tomorrow, if the baker has kept another cake.
Otium sine libro mihi dulce non est, sed avia sub arbore quiete sedere amat.
Leisure without a book is not pleasant to me, but grandmother likes to sit quietly under the tree.
Avia puellam ad pistrinum comitatur.
Grandmother accompanies the girl to the bakery.
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