sfrecciare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From s- + freccia (“arrow”) + -are.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sfrecciàre (first-person singular present sfréccio, first-person singular past historic sfrecciài, past participle sfrecciàto, auxiliary èssere)
- (intransitive) to speed; to dart; to whiz; to zip
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Nella mente cominciò a sfrecciargli una folla di pensieri imprevedibili, ma in apparenza del tutto irrilevanti.
- Thoughts which came of their own accord but seemed totally uninteresting began to flit through his mind.
- (literally, “A crowd of unpredictable but seemingly totally irrelevant thoughts began to rush in his mind.”)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sfrecciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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