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Help with libretto
Ciao! :)
There's a record of Ezio Pinza singing the famous Osmin's aria, but in Italian. I've managed to get most of the words myself and then tried googling the text to see if someone had put it somewhere on the internet, but to no avail.
Here's what I have:
Ah, che voglio trionfare
se vi guidan al supplizio,
se vi vedo strangolar.
Voglio rider e saltare
e canzoni vo cantare,
alla fin vi posero.
E pensate si a fugire
della? ... sorci indegni,
vi sapremo ben scoprire,
proverete i nostri sdegni
...
vi daremo la merce.
As you can see, I'm still missing a word (or two?) in one line plus an entire line.
I think I mostly got it right, but if something is wrong, please correct it.
And obviously I didn't put the accents.
I'd be very grateful for your help. :)
Perhaps this might be of help; the original German text with English translation:
http://www.aria-database.com/translations/serail19_ha.txt
And the link to the aria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UPlXYv3lOkOh, yeah - I'm wondering about this line: "alla fin vi posero". Pinza always had a very clear pronunciation, but does "vi posero" make sense? I thought that might be "riposero", but I clearly hear him saying "v".
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Diminutives (and augmentatives)
I have this Persian grammar that I've been reading, but it's very scanty so I need a bit of help.
For diminutive derivation, the book mentions the suffixes -če (-che) and -ak, the first one being used for inanimate objects only, whereas the second one "can be used for both animate and inanimate objects".
I'm a bit confused about the quoted part as there's no clarification. If I want to make a diminutive of "shoe"/"star"/"book", can I use whichever I want to, or is every word formed with a specific suffix?
And what is the contrast in animacy, living-nonliving or mobile-immobile? (For example, plants are alive, but immobile so can "-če" be used with them or not?)
The book doesn't mention augmentatives. I suppose that means you don't have true augmentatives? Is there perhaps some other way you express augmentation other than syntagmatic?
Thanks in advance! (:
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Traduzione dal siciliano
Ciao!
I was reading Giovanni Verga's Cavalleria rusticana and there is a sentence in Sicilian that I couldn't understand. Ora addio, gnà Lola, facemu cuntu ca chioppi e scampau, e la nostra amicizia finiu.
What does "facemu cuntu ca chioppi e scampau" mean?
Also, what is "racinedda"? From the context, I'm guessing it's a term of endearment, but I would like to know the exact meaning.
:)
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Quote from Mahabharata
Recently I bumped into a quote saying "Whom Did You Lose First, Yourself or Me?" and since I liked it, I tried to find out where it was from.
I found out it is from Mahabharata, having to do with "the game of dice" and how Yudhisthira lost everything, encluding Draupadi.
I would really like to have the qoute in Sanskrit, I've tried to find out which verse it was using Sanskrit-English dictionaries but I've had no luck.
The quote is apparently from section 66 of Sabha parva.
Here (http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m02/m02066.htm) it says: "Didst thou lose thyself first or me?".
I'd be most grateful if someone could help me and find that verse in Sanskrit for me! :)
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