accorciare

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adcurtiāre, from Latin curtus. Compare Sicilian accurzari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.korˈt͡ʃa.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cor‧cià‧re

Verb

accorciàre (first-person singular present accórcio, first-person singular past historic accorciài, past participle accorciàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to shorten; to abridge; to abbreviate
  2. (intransitive) to become shorter
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to weaken, to become weaker

Conjugation

    Conjugation of accorciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive accorciàre
auxiliary verb avére1, èssere2 gerund accorciàndo
present participle accorciànte past participle accorciàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present accórcio accórci accórcia accorciàmo accorciàte accórciano
imperfect accorciàvo accorciàvi accorciàva accorciavàmo accorciavàte accorciàvano
past historic accorciài accorciàsti accorciò accorciàmmo accorciàste accorciàrono
future accorcerò accorcerài accorcerà accorcerémo accorceréte accorcerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present accorcerèi accorcerésti accorcerèbbe, accorcerébbe accorcerémmo accorceréste accorcerèbbero, accorcerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present accórci accórci accórci accorciàmo accorciàte accórcino
imperfect accorciàssi accorciàssi accorciàsse accorciàssimo accorciàste accorciàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
accórcia accórci accorciàmo accorciàte accórcino
negative imperative non accorciàre non accórci non accorciàmo non accorciàte non accórcino

1Transitive.
2Intransitive.

Further reading

  • accorciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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