cicalare

Italian

Etymology

From cicala (“cicada”) +‎ -are; compare Ćići, a Slavic tribe of Croatia and Slovenia, named so by the Slavs because they couldn't understand their dialect.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.kaˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ci‧ca‧là‧re

Verb

cicalàre (first-person singular present cicàlo, first-person singular past historic cicalài, past participle cicalàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to chatter, to jabber, to blather [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive) to gossip [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive, rare) to say insistently

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cicalàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive cicalàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund cicalàndo
present participle cicalànte past participle cicalàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present cicàlo cicàli cicàla cicaliàmo cicalàte cicàlano
imperfect cicalàvo cicalàvi cicalàva cicalavàmo cicalavàte cicalàvano
past historic cicalài cicalàsti cicalò cicalàmmo cicalàste cicalàrono
future cicalerò cicalerài cicalerà cicalerémo cicaleréte cicalerànno
conditional cicalerèi cicalerésti cicalerèbbe, cicalerébbe cicalerémmo cicaleréste cicalerèbbero, cicalerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present cicàli cicàli cicàli cicaliàmo cicaliàte cicàlino
imperfect cicalàssi cicalàssi cicalàsse cicalàssimo cicalàste cicalàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
cicàla cicàli cicaliàmo cicalàte cicàlino
negative imperative non cicalàre non cicàli non cicaliàmo non cicalàte non cicàlino

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