flottare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flotter.

Verb

flottàre (first-person singular present flòtto, first-person singular past historic flottài, past participle flottàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to undulate (of the sea) [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive) to bob (of an object floating in the water) [auxiliary avere]
  3. (intransitive) to glide on the water (of a seaplane) [auxiliary avere]
  4. (transitive) to float (logs)
  5. to separate (minerals) using flotation

Conjugation
    Conjugation of flottàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive flottàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund flottàndo
present participle flottànte past participle flottàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present flòtto flòtti flòtta flottiàmo flottàte flòttano
imperfect flottàvo flottàvi flottàva flottavàmo flottavàte flottàvano
past historic flottài flottàsti flottò flottàmmo flottàste flottàrono
future flotterò flotterài flotterà flotterémo flotteréte flotterànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present flotterèi flotterésti flotterèbbe, flotterébbe flotterémmo flotteréste flotterèbbero, flotterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present flòtti flòtti flòtti flottiàmo flottiàte flòttino
imperfect flottàssi flottàssi flottàsse flottàssimo flottàste flottàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
flòtta flòtti flottiàmo flottàte flòttino
negative imperative non flottàre non flòtti non flottiàmo non flottàte non flòttino

Further reading
  • flottare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Swedish
flottare på Klarälven

Etymology

flotta +‎ -are (“-er”)

Noun

flottare c

  1. a log driver or timber rafter (person who transports logs on flowing water)
    • 1952, Hugo Lindh (lyrics and music), “Flottarkärlek [Log driver love]”, performed by Gösta "Snoddas" Nordgren:
      Jag var ung en gång för längesen, en flottare med färg. Alla jäntor var som vax uti min famn. I alla torp, i alla byar hade jag en liten vän, ifrån Norderås till skiljet ner vid Berg.
      I was young once, a long time ago, a log driver with color [maybe charming, vital, not gray, etc. – not a (well-known) idiom]. All the girls [somewhat folksy word for girl] were like wax in my arms [embrace]. In every croft, in every village [in all crofts, in all villages], I had a little friend, from Norderås to the log boom [from skilja (“separate”), in the sense of a place where logs are separated] down by Berg.

Declension
Declension of flottare 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative flottare flottaren flottare flottarna
Genitive flottares flottarens flottares flottarnas

See also
  • flottlägga (“bundle logs into a raft”)
  • flottläggning (“bundling of logs into a raft”)
  • skilje
  • sågverk (“sawmill”)
  • timmerflotte (“raft of bundled logs”)

References
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