quassare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quassāre (“to shake, quake”), intensive of quatiō (“to shake, agitate”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwasˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: quas‧sà‧re

Verb

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

quassàre (first-person singular present quàsso, first-person singular past historic quassài, past participle quassàto, auxiliary avére) (literary)

  1. (transitive) to shake, agitate
    Synonyms: scrollare, scuotere, squassare

Conjugation

    Conjugation of quassàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive quassàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund quassàndo
present participle quassànte past participle quassàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present quàsso quàssi quàssa quassiàmo quassàte quàssano
imperfect quassàvo quassàvi quassàva quassavàmo quassavàte quassàvano
past historic quassài quassàsti quassò quassàmmo quassàste quassàrono
future quasserò quasserài quasserà quasserémo quasseréte quasserànno
conditional quasserèi quasserésti quasserèbbe, quasserébbe quasserémmo quasseréste quasserèbbero, quasserébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present quàssi quàssi quàssi quassiàmo quassiàte quàssino
imperfect quassàssi quassàssi quassàsse quassàssimo quassàste quassàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
quàssa quàssi quassiàmo quassàte quàssino
negative imperative non quassàre non quàssi non quassiàmo non quassàte non quàssino

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

quassāre

  1. inflection of quassō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
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