Daily Verb Lesson: Italian for copy is copiare
The Italian verb for copy is the irregular -ARE verb copiare.... imagine you copy COPYING the Italian flag!
Copiare can also mean: to imitate, to mimic.
Related words include:
- copiare illegalmente : to pirate, plagiarize.
- la copiatura (da) (nf) : copying, transcribing (from).
- la copia (nfj) : copy, duplicate, imitation.
- la copia bella /brutta : good / rough copy.
These verbs ending in -iare are irregular because they drop the ii to i in the Present and Present Subjunctive tenses. Verbs conjugated in this way include : assediare, cambiare, copiare, raddoppiare, finanziare, gonfiare, graffiare, mischiare.
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Imagine COPYING the Italian flag!
| TENSE | ||||||
| Present Presente copy |
copio | copi | copia | copiamo | copiate | copiano |
| Past Imperfect Imperfetto copied |
copiavo | copiavi | copiava | copiavamo | copiavate | copiavano |
| Simple Past Passato remoto copied |
copiai | copiasti | copiò | copiammo | copiaste | copiarono |
| Future Futuro semplice will copy |
copierò | copierai | copierà | copieremo | copierete | copieranno |
| Conditional Condizionale would copy |
copierei | copieresti | copierebbe | copieremmo | copiereste | copierebbero |
| Subjunctive Congiuntivo Presente may copy |
copi | copi | copi | copiamo | copiate | copino |
| Present Perfect Passato Prossimo have copied |
ho copiato | hai copiato | ha copiato | abbiamo copiato | avete copiato | hanno copiato |
| Past Perfect Trapassato Prossimo had copied |
avevo copiato | avevi copiato | aveva copiato | avevamo copiato | avevate copiato | avevano copiato |
| Future Perfect Futuro Anteriore will have copied |
avrò copiato | avrai copiato | avrà copiato | avremo copiato | avrete copiato | avranno copiato |
| Conditional Perfect Condizionale Passato would have copied |
avrei copiato | avresti copiato | avrebbe copiato | avremmo copiato | avreste copiato | avrebbero copiato |
| Perfect Subjunctive Congiuntivo Passato may have copied |
abbia copiato | abbia copiato | abbia copiato | abbiamo copiato | abbiate copiato | abbiano copiato |
| Imperative Imperativo copy! |
copia! non copiare! |
(non) copi! | (non) copiamo! | (non) copiate! | (non) copino! | |
✔ Copiare is an irregular -ARE verb, these being the most common verbs in Italian.
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