A Room with a View — Page 1
The Bertolini
Das Bertolini
She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart.
Sie versprach uns nebeneinanderliegende Zimmer nach Süden mit Aussicht, stattdessen sind es hier Zimmer nach Norden, die auf einen Innenhof gehen, und weit voneinander entfernt.
She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table; at the row of white bottles of water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laureate that hung behind the English people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert Eager, M. A. Oxon.), that was the only other decoration of the wall.
Sie blickte auf die zwei Reihen Engländer, die am Tisch saßen; auf die Reihe weißer Wasserflaschen und roter Weinflaschen, die zwischen den Engländern standen; auf die Porträts der verstorbenen Königin und des verstorbenen Poeta laureatus, die schwer gerahmt hinter den Engländern hingen; auf die Bekanntmachung der englischen Kirche (Rev. Cuthbert Eager, M. A. Oxon.), die der einzige weitere Wandschmuck war.
"Charlotte, don't you feel, too, that we might be in London?
„Charlotte, hast du nicht auch das Gefühl, dass wir in London sein könnten?
I can hardly believe that all kinds of other things are just outside.
Ich kann kaum glauben, dass draußen ganz andere Dinge auf uns warten.
"I want so to see the Arno.
„Ich möchte so gern den Arno sehen.
The rooms the Signora promised us in her letter would have looked over the Arno.
Die Zimmer, die uns die Signora in ihrem Brief versprochen hatte, hätten den Blick auf den Arno gehabt.
The Signora had no business to do it at all.
Die Signora hatte überhaupt kein Recht, das zu tun.
Vocabulary
- Sie
- Formal pronoun: she, they, or you (formal)
- versprach
- Past tense of versprechen: promised
- uns
- First person plural pronoun: us
- nebeneinanderliegende
- Adjective meaning adjacent or side by side
- Zimmer
- Noun meaning room or bedroom
- nach
- Preposition meaning toward, after, or to
- Süden
- Noun meaning south or the south direction
- mit
- Preposition meaning with or along with
- Aussicht
- Noun meaning view, prospect, or outlook
- stattdessen
- Adverb meaning instead or in place of that
- sind
- Present tense of sein: are
- es
- Neuter pronoun meaning it
- hier
- Adverb meaning here or in this place
- Norden
- Noun meaning north or the northern direction
- auf
- Preposition meaning on, onto, or upon
- Innenhof
- Noun meaning inner courtyard or enclosed yard
- gehen
- Verb meaning to go or to walk
- weit
- Adjective or adverb meaning far or wide
- voneinander
- Adverb meaning from each other or apart
- entfernt
- Adjective meaning distant, removed, or far away
- blickte
- Past tense of blicken: looked or glanced
- zwei
- Number meaning two
- Reihen
- Plural noun meaning rows or lines
- Engländer
- Noun meaning Englishmen or English people
- am
- Contraction of an dem: at the or on the
- Tisch
- Noun meaning table or desk
- saßen
- Past tense of sitzen: sat or were sitting
- Reihe
- Noun meaning row, line, or series
- weißer
- Adjective meaning white, inflected form
- Wasserflaschen
- Plural noun meaning water bottles
- roter
- Adjective meaning red, inflected form
- Weinflaschen
- Plural noun meaning wine bottles
- zwischen
- Preposition meaning between or among
- Engländern
- Dative plural of Engländer: among the English people
- standen
- Past tense of stehen: stood or were standing
- Porträts
- Plural noun meaning portraits or painted likenesses
- verstorbenen
- Adjective meaning deceased or late, of the dead
- Königin
- Noun meaning queen or female monarch
- schwer
- Adjective meaning heavy, difficult, or serious
- gerahmt
- Past participle of rahmen: framed or enclosed in frame
- hinter
- Preposition meaning behind or at the back of
- hingen
- Past tense of hängen: hung or were hanging
- Bekanntmachung
- Noun meaning announcement, notice, or public posting
- englischen
- Adjective meaning English, inflected form
- Kirche
- Noun meaning church or religious congregation building
- einzige
- Adjective meaning only, sole, or single one
- weitere
- Adjective meaning further, additional, or more
- Wandschmuck
- Noun meaning wall decoration or ornamental wall piece
- war
- Past tense of sein: was
- hast
- Second person singular present of haben: have
- du
- Second person singular informal pronoun: you
- nicht
- Adverb meaning not or no
- auch
- Adverb meaning also, too, or as well
- Gefühl
- Noun meaning feeling, emotion, or sense
- dass
- Conjunction meaning that, introducing subordinate clause
- wir
- First person plural pronoun: we
- in
- Preposition meaning in, inside, or within
- sein
- Infinitive verb meaning to be
- könnten
- Subjunctive of können: could or might be able
- Ich
- First person singular pronoun: I
- kann
- Present tense of können: can or am able to
- kaum
- Adverb meaning hardly, scarcely, or barely
- glauben
- Verb meaning to believe, think, or suppose
- draußen
- Adverb meaning outside or out there
- ganz
- Adjective or adverb meaning whole, entire, or quite
- andere
- Adjective meaning other, different, or another
- Dinge
- Plural noun meaning things or objects
- warten
- Verb meaning to wait or to be waiting
- möchte
- Subjunctive of mögen: would like or want to
- so
- Adverb meaning so, thus, or in this way
- gern
- Adverb meaning gladly, willingly, or with pleasure
- sehen
- Verb meaning to see or to look at
- ihrem
- Dative form of ihr: her, their, in her/their
- Brief
- Noun meaning letter or written correspondence
- versprochen
- Past participle of versprechen: promised or pledged
- hatte
- Past tense of haben: had
- hätten
- Subjunctive of haben: would have or should have
- Blick
- Noun meaning glance, view, or look
- gehabt
- Past participle of haben: had or possessed
- überhaupt
- Adverb meaning at all, in general, or altogether
- kein
- Negative article meaning no, not a, or none
- Recht
- Noun meaning right, law, or entitlement
- zu
- Preposition or particle meaning to, too, or at
- tun
- Verb meaning to do or to act
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