tendere

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See also: tenderé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tendere (“to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend”), from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation

Verb

tèndere (first-person singular present tèndo, first-person singular past historic tési, past participle téso, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to tighten
  2. (transitive) to stretch
  3. (transitive) to crane (the neck)
  4. (intransitive) to tend
    • 2014 October 15, “L’amore è negli occhi”, in Le news più strane‎:
      É emerso infatti che chi cerca l’amore tende a guardare maggiormente i volti, mentre chi vuole solamente un’avventura erotica tende a guardare principalmente i corpi.
      It in fact emerged that those who seek love mainly tend to look at faces, while those who just want an erotic adventure chiefly tend to look at bodies.
  5. (intransitive) to draw (a bow)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tèndere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive tèndere
auxiliary verb avére gerund tendèndo
present participle tendènte past participle téso
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tèndo tèndi tènde tendiàmo tendéte tèndono
imperfect tendévo tendévi tendéva tendevàmo tendevàte tendévano
past historic tési tendésti tése tendémmo tendéste tésero
future tenderò tenderài tenderà tenderémo tenderéte tenderànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tenderèi tenderésti tenderèbbe, tenderébbe tenderémmo tenderéste tenderèbbero, tenderébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present tènda tènda tènda tendiàmo tendiàte tèndano
imperfect tendéssi tendéssi tendésse tendéssimo tendéste tendéssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
tèndi tènda tendiàmo tendéte tèndano
negative imperative non tèndere non tènda non tendiàmo non tendéte non tèndano

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Latin

Verb

tendēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of tendō

Verb

tendere

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tendere, via German tendieren.

Verb

tendere (present tense tenderer, passive tenderes, simple past tenderte, past participle tendert, present participle tenderende)

  1. to tend (mot / to do something)

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