If you have worked through the last three parts of chapter 2 (part 4, part 5, part 6) of your study of Carlo Collodi’s Le avventure di Pinocchio, translate the following sentences from English to Italian, using the vocabulary you have seen. A couple new but related usages are included; see if you can work out the Italian version.
- You will be sorry!
- You will be sorry if you do not keep quiet!
- What do you want from them?
- Can I ask you a favour?
- There they are up there!
- Here I am down here!
- I want to travel around Italy by car.
- Once upon a time there was an ant.
- It is about to rain.
- What are you doing down there on the ground?
Possible answers:
- Guai a te!
- Guai a te se non stai tranquillo!
- Cosa vuoi da loro?
- Posso chiederti un favore?
- Eccoli lassù!
- Eccomi quaggiù!
- Voglio girare l’Italia in auto.
- C’era una volta una formica.
- Sta per piovere.
- Che fai lì per terra? Cosa fai lì per terra? Che cosa fai lì per terra?