soffermare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
soffermàre (first-person singular present sofférmo, first-person singular past historic soffermài, past participle soffermàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to suspend (a movement, walk, etc.)
- soffermare il passo ― to stop walking (literally, “to suspend the stride”)
- to keep (one's look, mind, attention, etc.) [+ su (object) = on]
- ho soffermato lo sguardo sulla maestra
- I stared at the teacher
- (literally, “I kept my look on the teacher”)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of soffermàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ soffermare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana