balenare
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps from balena (“whale”), due to a popular habit of indicating atmospherical phenomena using the names of sea monsters[1] + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]balenàre (first-person singular present baléno, first-person singular past historic balenài, past participle balenàto, auxiliary èssere or (alternatively when impersonal) avére) (intransitive)
- (impersonal) to flash with lightning [auxiliary avere or essere]
- (rare, personal) to flash with lightning (of the sky) [auxiliary essere]
- to flash like lightning [auxiliary essere]
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno – Verso nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 77:
- In corrispondenza del torrione occidentale si apriva un enorme forno per il pane che già balenava di fiamme rossastre.
- In correspondence of the western tower opened a huge bread oven that was already flashing reddish flames.
- (figurative) to appear suddenly (of thoughts and ideas) [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of balenàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | balenàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | èssere, avére1 | gerund | balenàndo | |||
present participle | balenànte | past participle | balenàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | baléno | baléni | baléna | baleniàmo | balenàte | balénano |
imperfect | balenàvo | balenàvi | balenàva | balenavàmo | balenavàte | balenàvano |
past historic | balenài | balenàsti | balenò | balenàmmo | balenàste | balenàrono |
future | balenerò | balenerài | balenerà | balenerémo | baleneréte | balenerànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | balenerèi | balenerésti | balenerèbbe, balenerébbe | balenerémmo | baleneréste | balenerèbbero, balenerébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | baléni | baléni | baléni | baleniàmo | baleniàte | balénino |
imperfect | balenàssi | balenàssi | balenàsse | balenàssimo | balenàste | balenàssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
baléna | baléni | baleniàmo | balenàte | balénino | ||
negative imperative | non balenàre | non baléni | non baleniàmo | non balenàte | non balénino |
1Alternatively when impersonal.
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- Italian terms with unknown etymologies
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- Italian 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian intransitive verbs
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