Usages of cantare
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.
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?"
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