soppesare

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Italian

Etymology

From so- +‎ pesare (“to weigh”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sop.peˈza.re/, (traditional) /sop.peˈsa.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sop‧pe‧sà‧re

Verb

soppesàre (first-person singular present soppéso, first-person singular past historic soppesài, past participle soppesàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to weigh in one's hands
  2. to weigh up
    Synonyms: valutare, ponderare
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Sapevo che non avrei potuto trovare un metodo migliore per valutarle né avrei potuto circondarmi di persone migliori che mi aiutassero a soppesarle.
      I knew that I could not have come up with a better process to evaluate those odds or surrounded myself with a better mix of people to help me weigh them.
      (literally, “I knew that I could not have found a better method to evaluate them nor could I have surrounded myself with better people who could help me weigh them up.”)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of soppesàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive soppesàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund soppesàndo
present participle soppesànte past participle soppesàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present soppéso soppési soppésa soppesiàmo soppesàte soppésano
imperfect soppesàvo soppesàvi soppesàva soppesavàmo soppesavàte soppesàvano
past historic soppesài soppesàsti soppesò soppesàmmo soppesàste soppesàrono
future soppeserò soppeserài soppeserà soppeserémo soppeseréte soppeserànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present soppeserèi soppeserésti soppeserèbbe, soppeserébbe soppeserémmo soppeseréste soppeserèbbero, soppeserébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present soppési soppési soppési soppesiàmo soppesiàte soppésino
imperfect soppesàssi soppesàssi soppesàsse soppesàssimo soppesàste soppesàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
soppésa soppési soppesiàmo soppesàte soppésino
negative imperative non soppesàre non soppési non soppesiàmo non soppesàte non soppésino

References

  1. ^ soppeso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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