fregarne

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /freˈɡar.ne/, (central Italy) /freˈɡan.ne/
• Rhymes: -arne, (central Italy) -anne
• Hyphenation: fre‧gàr‧ne

Etymology 1

fregare +‎ -ne

Verb

fregàrne (pronominal, impersonal, third-person singular present ne fréga, third-person singular past historic ne fregò, past participle fregàto, auxiliary èssere)

1. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to be important [with a ‘to someone’ and di ‘about someone/something’] (idiomatically translated as English care or English give a damn with the object of a as the subject)

   Di lui non me ne fregava niente prima, e non me ne frega niente adesso. ― I didn't care about him before, and I don't care about him now. (literally, “Of him it wasn't important to me before, and isn't important to me now.”)

   • 1831, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, ⅬⅪ. Accussì va er monno [61 - That's how the world goes]; collected in Luigi Morandi, editor, Duecento sonetti in dialetto romanesco di Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli‎^[1], Firenze: G. Barbera, 1870, page 142:

     Quanto sei bbôno a stàttene a ppijjà,
     Perchè er monno vô ccùrre' pe' l'ingiù!
     Che tte ne frega a tte? llassel' annà;
     Tanto che speri? aritiràllo su?

     You're so good at staying there taking pains, because the world wants to go to hell! Why do you care? Let it go. What are you even hoping? To lift it back up?

     (literally, “How you are good to stay there to take, because the world wants to run downwards! What to you is of importance to you? let it go; After all what do you hope? to pull it back up?”)

2. (archaic) to not be important [with a ‘to someone’ and di ‘about someone/something’] (idiomatically translated as English not care or English not give a damn with the object of a as the subject)

Usage notes

• Usually reinforced by adding niente, nulla, or a synonym:

non me ne frega niente/nulla ― I don't give a damn (about that)

non te ne frega un cazzo, vero? ― you don't give a fuck (about that), do you?

• Despite apparent ungrammaticality, the dative form of the personal pronoun is usually used twice: one as either a weak dative personal pronoun (me, te, ce, ve) placed before the ne part of the verb, or the compound gliene (for 3^rd-person forms), the other with the preposition a followed by an accusative pronoun (me, te, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro), a demonstrative pronoun, or a noun:

a me non me ne frega niente ― I don't give a damn (about that)

ma che gliene frega, a quello? ― why does he care? (literally, “but what to him is important to that one?”)

a Giovanni non gliene frega niente ― Giovanni doesn't care (about that)

• The a + [me, te, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro] construction can be placed at either end of the phrase:

a loro non gliene frega niente ― they don't give a damn (about that)

is the same as:

non gliene frega niente, a loro ― they don't give a damn (about that)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fregàrne (-are; impersonal) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	fregàrne
auxiliary verb		èssere	gerund		fregàndone
present participle		fregànte	past participle		fregàto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	—	—	ne fréga	—	—	—
imperfect	—	—	ne fregàva	—	—	—
past historic	—	—	ne fregò	—	—	—
future	—	—	ne fregherà	—	—	—
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	—	—	ne fregherèbbe, ne fregherébbe	—	—	—
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	—	—	ne fréghi	—	—	—
imperfect	—	—	ne fregàsse	—	—	—
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		—	—	—	—	—
negative imperative		—	—	—	—	—

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fregarne

1. compound of the infinitive fregare with ne

References

• fregare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• frangere, refrange