Examples of using "Cantava" in a sentence and their english translations:
- I was singing.
- I sang.
He sang while working.
The bird sang in the tree.
- I was singing.
- I sang.
- She could sing well when she was a child.
- She sang well as a child.
She could sing well when she was a child.
- He played the piano and she sang.
- He was playing the piano and she was singing.
John played guitar and his friend sang.
Tom used to sing almost every day.
She smiled at me while she sang a song.
He played the piano and she sang.
- I didn't know you couldn't sing.
- I didn't know that you couldn't sing.
She smiled at me while she sang a song.
Mary is said to have been a great singer when she was young.
Tom used to never sing.
He sang his country's national anthem every day.
Sitting on the rock, she sang a sweet song as she combed her hair.
The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas song.
Mary is said to have sung so beautifully that, when one day she ventured on to a battlefield, the opposing soldiers dropped their weapons, forgot their enmity and sat down together just to listen to her; the birds are said to have fallen silent; the trees, to have uprooted themselves and moved closer; the stones, they say, rose from the riverbed and mounted the bank, and the wind blew only to carry her melodious voice.