aggradare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan agradar.

Verb

aggradàre (third-person only, third-person singular present aggràda, third-person singular past historic aggradò, past participle aggradàto, auxiliary èssere or avére)

  1. (intransitive or impersonal) to please [with a ‘someone’]
    questo film mi aggrada ― I like this movie (literally, “this movie pleases me”)
    fate come vi aggrada (impersonal) ― do as you like (literally, “do as it pleases you”)

Usage notes

  • Traditionally, this verb can be used only in the third-person singular present indicative, but in modern usage, all tenses in both singular and plural are allowed and easily attestable.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of aggradàre (-are; third-person only) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive aggradàre
auxiliary verb èssere, avére gerund aggradàndo
present participle aggradànte past participle aggradàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present — — aggràda — — aggràdano
imperfect — — aggradàva — — aggradàvano
past historic — — aggradò — — aggradàrono
future — — aggraderà — — aggraderànno
conditional — — aggraderèbbe, aggraderébbe — — aggraderèbbero, aggraderébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present — — aggràdi — — aggràdino
imperfect — — aggradàsse — — aggradàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
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negative imperative — — — — —
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