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Learn Hardcore Latin: vertere - to turn

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 18
/vertere

vertere

Word

vertere

Meaning

to turn

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of vertere

Soror ad dextram vertit, sed frater ad sinistram ambulat.

The sister turns to the right, but the brother walks to the left.

Si ad angulum venis, noli statim vertere, sed per viam rectam ambula.

If you come to the corner, do not turn at once, but walk along the straight road.

Magister discipulos monet ut per vicum rectum eant et ad angulum dextrum vertant.

The teacher warns the students to go through the straight street and turn at the right corner.

Asinus plaustrum trahit, sed una rota male vertitur.

The donkey pulls the wagon, but one wheel turns badly.

Molitor dicit se molam veterem lente vertere, sed molam novam facilius vertere.

The miller says that he turns the old millstone slowly, but the new millstone more easily.

Molitor molam novam celerius vertit, quia ex frumento bonam farinam facere vult.

The miller turns the new millstone more quickly, because he wants to make good flour from grain.

Alia navis proram ad litus vertit, cum in puppi malus fractus videatur.

Another ship turns its prow toward the shore, since a broken mast is seen at the stern.

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