contrappesare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon.trap.peˈza.re/, (traditional) /kon.trap.peˈsa.re/[1]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: con‧trap‧pe‧sà‧re
Verb
contrappesàre (first-person singular present contrappéso, first-person singular past historic contrappesài, past participle contrappesàto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (also when intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to counterbalance
- (transitive, figurative) to carefully evaluate
- (intransitive, literary, figurative) to be equal in value [with a] [auxiliary essere or avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of contrappesàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive or intransitive.
2Also when intransitive.
Related terms
References
- ^ peso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)