assé

Sassarese

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asˈse/

Verb

assé (first-person singular present soggu, past participle isthaddu, first-person singular imperfect era, first-person singular future saràggiu, first-person singular subjunctive sia, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive fùssia, second-person singular imperative sii, auxiliary assé)

1. (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice; to be
   • 1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XL, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'iltoria di Giuseppi l'ebreu [The story of Joseph the Jewish]‎, London, translation of Il Libro della Genesi (in Italian), verse 15, page 16:

     Palchì a fura soggu iltaddu pigliaddu da la terra dill’ Ebrei, e innogghi innuzzenti soggu iltaddu poltu in prisgioni.

     [Parchì a fura soggu isthaddu pigliaddu da la terra di l'Ebrei, e innogghi innuzzenti soggu isthaddu posthu in prisgioni.]

     [Perocchè con frode fui condotto via dalla terra degli Ebrei, e innocente fui gettato in questa fossa.]

     Because I have been thievishly taken from the land of the Jews, and now I have been placed in prison an innocent.

   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 4, page 70:

     Molgu pal te, tiranu,
     No vogliu più vibì sendi tradidda

     [Morghu par te, tiranu,
     No vógliu più vibì sendi tradidda]

     I die for you, you tyrant; I no longer want to live, having been betrayed

     (literally, “ being betrayed”)

2. (auxiliary) Used with gerund forms of verbs to form the continuous aspect; to be
   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 25, page 109:

     Dilli chi soggu brusgendi,
     Suffrendi affanni e dulori.

     [ […] affanni e durori.]

     Tell her that I am burning, suffering worries and sorrows.

   • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 12, lines 88–90:

     «Vedi la besthia chi fuggì m’ha fattu;
     sabiu famosu, aggiuddami da edda,
     chi trimurà m’è fendi e veni e buzzi».

     "You see the beast that made me flee; save me from it, o renowned wise, for it is making my veins and wrists tremble."

   • 1989 [1934], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Paràuri [Words], adaptation of Parole by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 11:

     abà zerchu i lu mondu lu cuzoru,
     un’oasi prupizia pa’ pudé
     cu lu pientu annittavvi da li fàuri
     chi vi sò già incighendi.

     now I'm looking for a corner in the world, a propitious oasis, to be able to clean you through weeping, from the lies that are blinding you

3. (auxiliary) Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect; to be, to have
   • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 7, lines 19–21:

     E tandu un pogu risthesi chieta
     la paura chi in cori era durada
     la notti chi passesi in tant’apprettu.

     Then it remained quiet for a while, the fear that in the heart had lasted for the night I spent in such a rush.

4. (copulative) to be Used to indicate that the subject and object are identical or equivalent; to be
   • c. 19^th century, Sebastiano di Branca, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 1, page 60:

     Di tanti indilpusizioni,
     Edda, ingrata! motib’ è

     [Di tanti indipusizioni […] ]

     She—ungrateful!—is the reason of so many ailments

   • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 7, lines 16–18:

     abbaiddend’in althu, li so ipaldi
     vidisi già visthudi di lu sori
     ch’è guida a l’omu in tutti li so passi.

     Looking up, I saw its back already clothed with the sun, which is a guide to man in his every step.

   • 1989 [1934], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, L’ulthima [The last one], adaptation of Parole by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 43:

     Eu sempri soggu isthaddu
     (“pa’ cùipa toia”, mi ripondi) un cani
     currioru, propiu sempri.

     I’ve always been—"Your fault", you reply—a stray dog: always.

5. (copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective, prepositional phrase; to be
   • 1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter XLV, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'iltoria di Giuseppi l'ebreu [The story of Joseph the Jewish]‎, London, translation of Il Libro della Genesi (in Italian), verse 1, page 52:

     pal chissu cumandesi, chi si n’ iscissini tutti fora, e nisciunu eltraneu fussi prisenti a lu rizziprocu ricunniscimentu.

     [par chissu cumandesi, chi si n' iscìssini tutti fora, e nisciunu isthragnu fussi prisenti a lu rizzìprocu ricunniscimentu.]

     [per la qual cosa ordinò, che tutti si ritirassero, affinchè nissuno straniero fosse presente, mentre ad essi si dava a conoscere]

     so he ordered that everyone get out, and that no outsider be present for the reciprocal recognition

   • c. 19^th century, Sebastiano di Branca, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 1, page 59:

     Divilu a cha t’ha mandaddu
     Ch’ iltoggu com’ edda sà,
     Ch’ è superflu priguntà
     Com’ iltazi un dildiciaddu.

     [Dìvvilu a ca t’ha mandaddu
     Ch’isthoggu com' edda sa
     Ch’è superfluu priguntà
     Com’ isthazi un disdhicciaddu.]

     Tell it to the one who sent you, that I am faring the way she knows; that it is superfluous to ask how an unfortunate fares.

   • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 5, lines 1–3:

     A la middai di chistha nosthra vida
     m'acciappesi in d'un buschu assai buggiosu,
     chì lu caminu bonu era già pessu.

     At the middle of this life of ours, I found myself in a very dark forest, because the good way was already lost.

   • 1989 [1954], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Lauda (29 abriri 1945) [Praise (April 29, 1945)], adaptation of Laude (29 aprile 1945) by Salvatore Quasimodo; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 11:

     Sempri, figlioru caru, isthupiaddu abemmu
     sobr’a li morthi: e fùssiani pendibèndi
     da un puggioru, daddi foggu pa’ la Grozi
     di Cristhu […]

     Dear child, we have always spitted on the dead whether they were hanging from a balcony, set aflame for the Cross of Christ

6. (intransitive) to be (to occupy a place)
   • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “A tè, Rusì [To you, Rusina]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari], Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 67:

     D’assé in zéru m’è parudu
     cu lu córi indïusadu.

     It seemed like being in the sky, with a fancying heart.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• assevvi

See also

• abé