Usages of aut
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?"
Mater aut pater cum puero domi manet.
Mother or father stays at home with the boy.
Ne rustica quidem femina humanitatem aut comitatem spernit, si vicinae pauperes auxilium petunt.
Not even a rustic woman despises kindness or courtesy, if poor neighbors ask for help.
Si balneatrix non adest, nemo strigilem aut unguentum e mensa sumat.
If the bath-attendant is not present, no one should take a scraper or ointment from the table.
Mater dicit nos aestate frui debere, praesertim cum Iulius aut Augustus calidissimus sit.
Mother says that we ought to enjoy the summer, especially when July or August is very hot.
Post lectionem puella domi matri narrat se hodie didicisse cur quaedam praepositiones accusativum, aliae ablativum, quaedam utrumque accipiant, et cur idem verbum in indicativo aut in coniunctivo alium sensum habeat.
After the lesson the girl tells her mother at home that today she learned why some prepositions take the accusative, others the ablative, some both, and why the same verb has a different sense in the indicative or in the subjunctive.
Magistra rogat utrum “aut” coniunctio sit necne.
The teacher asks whether “aut” is a conjunction or not.
Sī quis in tablinō aut in peristyliō clāmet, avia blandē dīcit: “Cave hanc quiētem turbēs.”
If anyone shouts in the study or in the peristyle, grandmother gently says: “Do not disturb this quiet.”
Lucia intellegit infinitivum passivum saepe significare aliquem ab alio videri aut laudari.
Lucia understands that the passive infinitive often means that someone is seen or praised by someone else.
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