leggere
Italian
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editVerb
editlèggere (first-person singular present lèggo, first-person singular past historic lèssi, past participle lètto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, intransitive) to read [auxiliary avere]
- Lorenzo legge il giornale. ― Lorenzo reads the newspaper.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of lèggere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | lèggere | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | leggèndo | |||
present participle | leggènte | past participle | lètto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | lèggo | lèggi | lègge | leggiàmo | leggéte | lèggono |
imperfect | leggévo | leggévi | leggéva | leggevàmo | leggevàte | leggévano |
past historic | lèssi | leggésti | lèsse | leggémmo | leggéste | lèssero |
future | leggerò | leggerài | leggerà | leggerémo | leggeréte | leggerànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | leggerèi | leggerésti | leggerèbbe, leggerébbe | leggerémmo | leggeréste | leggerèbbero, leggerébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | lègga | lègga | lègga | leggiàmo | leggiàte | lèggano |
imperfect | leggéssi | leggéssi | leggésse | leggéssimo | leggéste | leggéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
lèggi | lègga | leggiàmo | leggéte | lèggano | ||
negative imperative | non lèggere | non lègga | non leggiàmo | non leggéte | non lèggano |
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editleggere
Neapolitan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian leggere, from Latin legere. Doublet of lejere, the native Neapolitan form.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editleggere
- to read
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 768: “leggere; egli legge” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “leggere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
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