prefare
Italian
editEtymology
editBack-formation from prefazione, possibly with influence from Latin praefārī.
Verb
editprefàre (first-person singular present prefàccio, first-person singular past historic preféci, past participle prefàto, first-person singular imperfect prefacévo, second-person singular imperative prefài or prefà', auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, uncommon) to preface
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of prefàre (-ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | prefàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | prefacèndo | |||
present participle | prefacènte | past participle | prefàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | prefàccio | prefài | prefà1 | prefacciàmo | prefàte | prefànno |
imperfect | prefacévo | prefacévi | prefacéva | prefacevàmo | prefacevàte | prefacévano |
past historic | preféci | prefacésti | preféce | prefacémmo | prefacéste | prefécero |
future | prefarò | prefarài | prefarà | prefarémo | prefaréte | prefarànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | prefarèi | prefarésti | prefarèbbe, prefarébbe | prefarémmo | prefaréste | prefarèbbero, prefarébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | prefàccia | prefàccia | prefàccia | prefacciàmo | prefacciàte | prefàcciano |
imperfect | prefacéssi | prefacéssi | prefacésse | prefacéssimo | prefacéste | prefacéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
prefài, prefà' | prefàccia | prefacciàmo | prefàte | prefàcciano | ||
negative imperative | non prefàre | non prefàccia | non prefacciàmo | non prefàte | non prefàcciano |
1With syntactic gemination after the verb.
Related terms
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editCategories:
- Italian back-formations
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -ere
- Italian irregular verbs
- Italian verbs with irregular present indicative
- Italian verbs with irregular imperative
- Italian verbs with irregular past historic
- Italian verbs with irregular past participle
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian transitive verbs
- Italian terms with uncommon senses