puzzare

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Italian

Etymology

From puzzo (“smell, stink”) +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /putˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: puz‧zà‧re

Verb

puzzàre (first-person singular present pùzzo, first-person singular past historic puzzài, past participle puzzàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to smell (bad) or stink
    La stanza puzza di fumo ― The room smells like cigarettes (literally, “The room smells like smoke”)
  2. (intransitive, figurative) to cause worry or unease
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to be annoying or irritating
  4. (intransitive, figurative) to give an impression, to seem
    • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XI [Chapter 11]”, in I promessi sposi‎, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 222:
      Gervaso, a cui non pareva vero d’essere una volta più informato degli altri, a cui non pareva piccola gloria l’avere avuta una gran paura, a cui, per aver tenuto di mano a una cosa che puzzava di criminale, pareva d’esser diventato un uomo come gli altri, crepava di voglia di vantarsene.
      Jervase, who could scarcely believe that for once he knew a little more than others, who regarded having had a great fear not as a small glory, and who, for having had a hand in what seemed like a criminal affair, felt himself a man like the others, was dying to boast about it.
  5. (intransitive, figurative) to despise, to disdain

Conjugation

    Conjugation of puzzàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive puzzàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund puzzàndo
present participle puzzànte past participle puzzàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present pùzzo pùzzi pùzza puzziàmo puzzàte pùzzano
imperfect puzzàvo puzzàvi puzzàva puzzavàmo puzzavàte puzzàvano
past historic puzzài puzzàsti puzzò puzzàmmo puzzàste puzzàrono
future puzzerò puzzerài puzzerà puzzerémo puzzeréte puzzerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present puzzerèi puzzerésti puzzerèbbe, puzzerébbe puzzerémmo puzzeréste puzzerèbbero, puzzerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present pùzzi pùzzi pùzzi puzziàmo puzziàte pùzzino
imperfect puzzàssi puzzàssi puzzàsse puzzàssimo puzzàste puzzàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
pùzza pùzzi puzziàmo puzzàte pùzzino
negative imperative non puzzàre non pùzzi non puzziàmo non puzzàte non pùzzino

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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