sembrare
See also: sembraré
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan semblar, from Late Latin similāre, a verb based on Latin similis (“similar”). More or less a doublet of somigliare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /semˈbra.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sem‧brà‧re
Verb
sembràre (first-person singular present sémbro, first-person singular past historic sembrài, past participle sembràto, auxiliary èssere) (intransitive)
- to seem, to look (like), to appear
- Le cose non sono sempre come sembrano. ― Things are not always as they appear.
- to sound, taste or feel (like)
- (impersonal) to seem
Conjugation
Conjugation of sembràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
References
- sembrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Verb
sembrare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of sembrar