ribattere
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riˈbat.te.re/
- Rhymes: -attere
- Hyphenation: ri‧bàt‧te‧re
Verb
ribàttere (first-person singular present ribàtto, first-person singular past historic ribattéi, past participle ribattùto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to beat again
- (transitive) to hit back (a tennis ball, soccer ball, etc.)
- (transitive) to retype
- (intransitive) to answer back, to talk back, to reply, to retort [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of ribàttere (root-stressed -ere) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- ribattere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana