On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Phil Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Gondoliers, the Contadine sing "Per voi, bei signori". According to > Google translate, 'bei' does not exist. Is there an Italian speaker here > who can say whether it is Italian, or whether Gilbert got it wrong?
When _preceding_ a noun the Italian word 'bello' (beautiful, hansom, good, nice) follows the same rules as 'quello' (that). Without going into all the rules it can take on these forms: bello, bella, bel, bell', begli, bei, belle. -----Jay _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
