soppesare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sop.peˈza.re/, (traditional) /sop.peˈsa.re/[1]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sop‧pe‧sà‧re
Verb
soppesàre (first-person singular present soppéso, first-person singular past historic soppesài, past participle soppesàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to weigh in one's hands
- to weigh up
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Sapevo che non avrei potuto trovare un metodo migliore per valutarle né avrei potuto circondarmi di persone migliori che mi aiutassero a soppesarle.
- I knew that I could not have come up with a better process to evaluate those odds or surrounded myself with a better mix of people to help me weigh them.
- (literally, “I knew that I could not have found a better method to evaluate them nor could I have surrounded myself with better people who could help me weigh them up.”)
Conjugation
References
- soppeso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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