finì
Appearance
Italian
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- third-person singular past historic of finire
Lombard
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Neapolitan
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- Alternative spelling of finire
Piedmontese
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[edit]Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
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Further reading
[edit]Sassarese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin fīnīre, present infinitive of fīniō (“I finish, terminate”), derived from fīnis (“boundary, limit”).
Pronunciation
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- (transitive) to end, to finish, to terminate
- (transitive) to run out of, to use up, to consume
- (intransitive) to end, to come to an end, to be over
- 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lu porthu sottuterra [The underground harbour]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 93:
- Di chistha puisia
mi rimani
lu nienti d’un sigretu
chi no fini mai.- What's left to me of this poem, is the nothingness of a secret that never ends.
- 2009 December 23, Ignazio Sanna, “Cu la mènti a bazinédda [With a dizzy mind]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese[1]:
- Vizinu a me, cumènti dugna séra
addananzi a la véccia ziminèa,
ti n’isthai cun d’un fa pinsamentósu,
la faccia isthracca di la dì chi fini.- Near me, like every night, in front of the old hearth, you are, pensively, with the tired face of the day coming to an end.
- (literally, “Near me, like every night, in front of the old hearth, you stay with a pensive manner, the tired face of the day coming to an end.”)
- (intransitive, of things) to be no more
- (intransitive) to end up, to wind up
Usage notes
[edit]Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of finì
infinitive | simple | finì | |||||
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compound | assé or abé + past participle | ||||||
gerund | simple | finendi | |||||
compound | essendi or abendi + past participle | ||||||
past participle | finiddu | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | eu, éiu | tu | eddu/edda | noi | voi | eddi | |
(simple tenses) | present | finu | fini | fini | finimmu | finiddi | fìnini |
imperfect | finia, finiu | finì | finia | finìami | finìaddi | finìani | |
past historic1 | finisi | finisi | finisi | finìsimi | finìsiddi | finìsini | |
future | finiràggiu, finaràggiu | finiré, finaré | finirà, finarà | finiremu, finaremu | finireddi, finareddi | finirani, finarani | |
present indicative of abé + a finì | |||||||
future indicative of abé + a finì | |||||||
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of assé or abé + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of assé or abé + past participle | ||||||
past anterior1 | past historic indicative of assé or abé + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of assé or abé + past participle | ||||||
present of abé + a + assé or abé + past participle | |||||||
future of abé + a + assé or abé + past participle | |||||||
conditional | eu, éiu | tu | eddu/edda | noi | voi | eddi | |
present | finarìsthia, finaria | finaristhi, finarì | finarìsthia, finaria | finarìsthiami, finarìami | finarìsthiaddi, finarìaddi | finarìsthiani, finarìani | |
perfect | present conditional of assé or abé + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | chi eu, chi éiu | chi tu | chi eddu/edda | chi noi | chi voi | chi eddi | |
(simple tenses) | present | fìnia, fìniu | fini | fìnia | fìniami | fìniaddi | fìniani |
imperfect | finissi, finìssia | finissi | finissi, finìssia | finìssimi, finìssiami | finìssiddi, finìssiaddi | finìssini, finìssiani | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of assé or abé + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of assé or abé + past participle | ||||||
imperative | éiu, eu | tu | eddu/edda | noi | voi | eddi | |
— | fini, no finì | fìnia | finimmu | finiddi | fìniani | ||
1. Chiefly archaic, and generally replaced by the pluperfect |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
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