tonfare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]tonfo (“thud”, noun) + -are (first-conjugation verbal suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tonfàre (first-person singular present tónfo, first-person singular past historic tonfài, past participle tonfàto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (intransitive, uncommon) to fall heavily producing a dull sound [auxiliary essere]
- to thud, to make a thud
- 1852, Paolo Emiliani Giudici, chapter XVII, in Beppe Arpia[1], Florence: Luigi Ducci e comp., page 452:
- Beppe salta giù, e tonfa come un masso: pareva fosse diventato sordo-muto, non poteva profferire parola.
- Beppe jumps down, and thuds like a rock: he seemed to have become deaf-mute; he couldn't utter one word.
- to plop, to splash
- to thud, to make a thud
- (transitive, Tuscany) to hit, to beat
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of tonfàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | tonfàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | èssere1, avére2 | gerund | tonfàndo | |||
present participle | tonfànte | past participle | tonfàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | tónfo | tónfi | tónfa | tonfiàmo | tonfàte | tónfano |
imperfect | tonfàvo | tonfàvi | tonfàva | tonfavàmo | tonfavàte | tonfàvano |
past historic | tonfài | tonfàsti | tonfò | tonfàmmo | tonfàste | tonfàrono |
future | tonferò | tonferài | tonferà | tonferémo | tonferéte | tonferànno |
conditional | tonferèi | tonferésti | tonferèbbe, tonferébbe | tonferémmo | tonferéste | tonferèbbero, tonferébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | tónfi | tónfi | tónfi | tonfiàmo | tonfiàte | tónfino |
imperfect | tonfàssi | tonfàssi | tonfàsse | tonfàssimo | tonfàste | tonfàssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
tónfa | tónfi | tonfiàmo | tonfàte | tónfino | ||
negative imperative | non tonfàre | non tónfi | non tonfiàmo | non tonfàte | non tónfino |
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Further reading
[edit]- “tonfare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 21 toi–z, UTET, 2002, page 21b
- tonfare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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