pesare

See also: pesaré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pēnsāre (“weigh, hang”), whence also the doublet pensare 'think'. Compare French peser.

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

Verb

pesàre (first-person singular present péso, first-person singular past historic pesài, past participle pesàto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (alternatively when intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive, also figurative) to weigh (to measure the weight of)
  2. (intransitive) to weigh (a specific amount) [auxiliary avere or essere]
  3. (intransitive) to be heavy [auxiliary avere or essere]
  4. (intransitive) to weigh on, to burden [+ su (object)] [auxiliary avere or essere]
  5. (intransitive, figurative) to weigh on, to be tiresome or unpleasant to [+ a (object)] [auxiliary avere or essere]
  6. (intransitive, figurative) to weigh on, to be important or influential on [+ su (object)] [auxiliary avere or essere]
  7. (intransitive, figurative) to loom [+ su di (object)] [auxiliary avere or essere]

Conjugation
    Conjugation of pesàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive pesàre
auxiliary verb avére1, èssere2 gerund pesàndo
present participle pesànte past participle pesàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present péso pési pésa pesiàmo pesàte pésano
imperfect pesàvo pesàvi pesàva pesavàmo pesavàte pesàvano
past historic pesài pesàsti pesò pesàmmo pesàste pesàrono
future peserò peserài peserà peserémo peseréte peserànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present peserèi peserésti peserèbbe, peserébbe peserémmo peseréste peserèbbero, peserébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present pési pési pési pesiàmo pesiàte pésino
imperfect pesàssi pesàssi pesàsse pesàssimo pesàste pesàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
pésa pési pesiàmo pesàte pésino
negative imperative non pesàre non pési non pesiàmo non pesàte non pésino

1Transitive or intransitive.
2Alternatively when intransitive.

Related terms

References
  1. peso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

pesare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of pesar
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