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Usages of de

• Inter flumen et viam parvus pons est, et pueri de ponte flumen spectant.: Between the river and the road there is a small bridge, and the boys look at the river from the bridge.
• Discipuli cum magistro de bello loquuntur.: The students talk with the teacher about war.
• Folium de arbore cadit et in terra manet.: A leaf falls from the tree and remains on the ground.
• Pater de scalis descendit et servam vocat.: Father comes down the stairs and calls the female servant.
• Mater fenestram aperit, sed pulvis de pariete in mensam cadit.: Mother opens the window, but dust falls from the wall onto the table.
• Puer ad saxum currit et de saxo in herbam salit.: The boy runs to the rock and jumps from the rock into the grass.
• Puer rogat unde sonus veniat; avus respondet aquam de monte ad fontem currere.: The boy asks where the sound comes from; grandfather answers that water runs from the mountain to the spring.
• Pater pallium vetus de sella detrahit et cubile tegit.: Father pulls the old cloak from the chair and covers the bed.
• Cum magistra ad villam venisset, puella celeriter chartas plicavit et de mensa sustulit.: When the teacher had come to the house, the girl quickly folded the papers and took them from the table.
• Una tegula de tecto cecidit, sed faber dicit trabem et fornices firmos manere.: One roof tile fell from the roof, but the craftsman says that the beam and the arches remain strong.
• October ventosior est, et mense Octobri folia multa de arboribus cadunt.: October is windier, and in October many leaves fall from the trees.
• Postquam convivae cenaverunt, servae scutellas et pocula de mensa tollunt.: After the guests have dined, the maidservants take the dishes and cups from the table.
• Corvus de trunco ad saxum volat, et canis eum diu spectat.: The raven flies from the trunk to a rock, and the dog watches it for a long time.
• Serva pannum humidum capit et fuliginem de pariete tergit.: The maid takes a damp cloth and wipes the soot from the wall.
• Cum serva cubiculum purgaret, puella de mensa duas scutellas sustulit et in catino mala posuit.: While the maid was cleaning the bedroom, the girl took two dishes from the table and put apples in the bowl.
• Canis micam de pavimento capit.: The dog takes a crumb from the floor.
• Marcus verba de tabula delere conatur, sed spongia nimis sicca est.: Marcus tries to erase the words from the board, but the sponge is too dry.

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