controbattere
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon.troˈbat.te.re/
- Rhymes: -attere
- Hyphenation: con‧tro‧bàt‧te‧re
Verb
controbàttere (first-person singular present controbàtto, first-person singular past historic controbattéi, past participle controbattùto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to counterattack or counterstrike
- (transitive, intransitive) to answer back; to refute; to rebut
- non so come controbattere ― I don't know how to refute (it)
- controbattere un'accusa ― to rebut an accusation
- controbatté di non saperne nulla
- he responded that he did not know anything about it
Usage notes
Conjugation
Conjugation of controbàttere (root-stressed -ere) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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