mettere
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin mittere, probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with Spanish meter, Occitan metre, and English mission.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]méttere (first-person singular present métto, first-person singular past historic mìsi, past participle mésso, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to put, to place, to lay, to set
- (transitive) to deposit
- (transitive) to bet, to wager
- (transitive) to cut (new teeth)
- (transitive) to lead (someone) to, to provoke in (someone), to make (someone) feel [with a or in ‘a certain condition or state of mind’]
- mettere qualcuno in ansia ― to make someone anxious (literally, “to put/lead someone into anxiety”)
- mettere qualcuno nei guai ― to get someone in trouble
- metterli d'accordo ― to get them to agree (literally, “to put them in agreement”)
- (transitive, colloquial) to charge (an amount of money)
- (transitive) to don, to put on
- (intransitive) to give, to lead onto (of a street, road, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive) to bud, to develop (of plants) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) in the form "metterlo", literally "to put it": to penetrate sexually
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) in the form "metterlo", literally "to put it": to cheat, to swindle, to scam
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of méttere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | méttere | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | mettèndo | |||
present participle | mettènte | past participle | mésso | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | métto | métti | métte | mettiàmo | mettéte | méttono |
imperfect | mettévo | mettévi | mettéva | mettevàmo | mettevàte | mettévano |
past historic | mìsi | mettésti | mìse | mettémmo | mettéste | mìsero |
future | metterò | metterài | metterà | metterémo | metteréte | metterànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | metterèi | metterésti | metterèbbe, metterébbe | metterémmo | metteréste | metterèbbero, metterébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | métta | métta | métta | mettiàmo | mettiàte | méttano |
imperfect | mettéssi | mettéssi | mettésse | mettéssimo | mettéste | mettéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
métti | métta | mettiàmo | mettéte | méttano | ||
negative imperative | non méttere | non métta | non mettiàmo | non mettéte | non méttano |
Including lesser-used forms:
Conjugation of méttere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | méttere | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | mettèndo | |||
present participle | mettènte | past participle | mésso | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | métto | métti | métte | mettiàmo | mettéte | méttono |
imperfect | mettévo | mettévi | mettéva | mettevàmo | mettevàte | mettévano |
past historic | mìsi, méssi1 | mettésti | mìse, mésse1 | mettémmo | mettéste | mìsero, méssero1 |
future | metterò | metterài | metterà | metterémo | metteréte | metterànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | metterèi | metterésti | metterèbbe, metterébbe | metterémmo | metteréste | metterèbbero, metterébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | métta | métta | métta | mettiàmo | mettiàte | méttano |
imperfect | mettéssi | mettéssi | mettésse | mettéssimo | mettéste | mettéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
métti | métta | mettiàmo | mettéte | méttano | ||
negative imperative | non méttere | non métta | non mettiàmo | non mettéte | non méttano |
1Popular Tuscan.
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[edit]Neapolitan
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Verb
[edit]mettere
- to put
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1171: “mettere lo strame” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “mettere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
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