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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to give reason”. Compare French donner raison.
Verb
dàre ragione (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò ragione, first-person singular past historic dièdi ragione or diédi ragione or détti ragione or (traditional) dètti ragione, past participle dàto ragione, first-person singular future darò ragione, first-person singular subjunctive dìa ragione, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi ragione, second-person singular imperative dài ragione or dà' ragione, auxiliary avére)
- to bear out; to prove right
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:... il software di riconoscimento facciale della CIA gli avrebbe presto dato ragione.- ... the CIA's facial recognition software would soon indicate the same.
- (literally, “... the CIA's face recognition software would soon prove him right.”)
- to admit that someone is right