tafanare

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Italian

Etymology

From tafano +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.faˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ta‧fa‧nà‧re

Verb

tafanàre (first-person singular present tafàno, first-person singular past historic tafanài, past participle tafanàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, rare) to rummage everywhere
  2. (transitive, rare) to bug, to pester
    • 1883, Carlo Collodi, chapter 26, in Le Avventure di Pinocchio; republished ‎Milano: Casa Editrice Bietti, 1954, page 115:
      sentendosi scappar la pazienza, si rivolse a quelli che più lo tafanavano e pigliavano giuoco di lui, e disse loro…
      feeling his run out, he turned to face those that pestered him and made fun of him the most, and said to them…

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tafanàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive tafanàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund tafanàndo
present participle tafanànte past participle tafanàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tafàno tafàni tafàna tafaniàmo tafanàte tafànano
imperfect tafanàvo tafanàvi tafanàva tafanavàmo tafanavàte tafanàvano
past historic tafanài tafanàsti tafanò tafanàmmo tafanàste tafanàrono
future tafanerò tafanerài tafanerà tafanerémo tafaneréte tafanerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tafanerèi tafanerésti tafanerèbbe, tafanerébbe tafanerémmo tafaneréste tafanerèbbero, tafanerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present tafàni tafàni tafàni tafaniàmo tafaniàte tafànino
imperfect tafanàssi tafanàssi tafanàsse tafanàssimo tafanàste tafanàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
tafàna tafàni tafaniàmo tafanàte tafànino
negative imperative non tafanàre non tafàni non tafaniàmo non tafanàte non tafànino

Further reading

  • tafanare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • tafanare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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