fare amicizia

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to do friendship”.

Verb

fàre amicizia (first-person singular present fàccio amicizia, first-person singular past historic féci amicizia, past participle fàtto amicizia, first-person singular imperfect facévo amicizia, second-person singular imperative fài amicizia or fà' amicizia, auxiliary avére)

1. to make friends [with con ‘with someone’]
   • 2007, David Foster Wallace, “La persona depressa”, in Ottavio Fatica, Giovanna Granato, transl., Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi, Einaudi:

     Nel periodo scolastico la persona depressa non aveva mai fatto parola... di quella particolare compagna di stanza - una compagna di stanza con la quale la persona depressa non aveva mai minimamente legato o fatto amicizia e verso la quale aveva provato un risentimento amaro, servile, tale da far sì che la persona depressa disprezzasse se stessa, e dopo che quell'interminabile secondo semestre del secondo anno era finito non aveva fatto il minimo tentativo di mantenere i contatti - ma lei (cioè la persona depressa) aveva esternato il ricordo angoscioso dell'episodio...

     As a schoolgirl, the depressed person had never spoken of... that particular roommate—a roommate with whom the depressed person hadn't clicked or connected at all, and whom she had resented in a bitter, cringing way that had made the depressed person despise herself, and had not made any attempt to stay in touch with after that endless sophomore second semester was finished—but she (i.e., the depressed person) had shared her agonizing memory of the incident...

     (literally, “In the scholastic period, the depressed person had never mentioned... that particular roommate - a roommate with whom the depressed person had never gotten on well at all or made friends with and towards whom she had felt a bitter resentment, servile, enough to make certain that the depressed person despised herself, and after that interminable second semester of the second year had finished, she had not made the most minimal effort to keep in touch - but she (which is to say, the depressed person) had shared the agonizing memory of that episode...”)