èssiri

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• siri

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛssiri/
• Hyphenation: ès‧si‧ri

Verb

èssiri

1. to be

Usage notes

• The future tense in Sicilian has fallen into disuse. There are at least two methods to express the future in Sicilian:
  • by using the present indicative, or
  • by using the construction aviri a, which is similar to the have to construction in English.
• The conditional has also fallen into disuse in Sicilian.
  • The present conditional may be replaced by the present indicative or the imperfect subjunctive.
  • The past conditional may be replaced by the past perfect subjunctive.
• In the Messinese dialect, the conditional is still in use, and the conjunctive is sometimes replaced by the imperfect indicative, especially in the present tense.
• See the Wikipedia article on the Sicilian language for more information.

Conjugation

		simple			compound
infinitive		èssiri, siri			aviri statu
past participle		statu			-
gerund		sennu			avennu statu
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ju	tu	iḍḍu/iḍḍa	nuiautri	vuiautri	iḍḍi
	present	sugnu	si'	è, esti, e-ni, e-di	semu	siti	sunnu, su'
	imperfect	era	eri, eri-tu	era	èramu, èrumu	era-vu, eru-vu	èranu, èrunu
	preterite	fui	fusti	fu	fummu	fusti-vu, fusti, fustû	foru
conditional		forra, sarìa	forri, saristi	forra, sarìa	fòrrimu, sarìumu	forru-vu, saristu	fòrrunu, sarìunu
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of aviri plus the past participle
	past perfect	Use the imperfect tense of aviri plus the past participle
	past conditional	Use the conditional tense of aviri plus the past participle
subjunctive		ju	tu	iḍḍu/iḍḍa	nuiautri	vuiautri	iḍḍi
	present	sìa	si'	sìa	sìamu	siati	sìanu
	imperfect	fussi	fussi	fussi	fùssimu	fussi-vu	fùssiru
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of aviri plus the past participle
imperative		-	tu	vossìa	nuiautri	vuiautri	-
			si'	fussi	semu	siti