tendere

See also: tenderé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō (“I stretch, stretch out, distend, extend”), from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛndere

Verb

tendere

  1. (transitive) to tighten
  2. (transitive) to stretch
  3. (transitive) to crane (the neck)
  4. (intransitive) to tend
    • 2014 October 15, “L’amore è negli occhi”, in Le news più strane‎:
      É emerso infatti che chi cerca l’amore tende a guardare maggiormente i volti, mentre chi vuole solamente un’avventura erotica tende a guardare principalmente i corpi.
      It in fact emerged that those who seek love mainly tend to look at faces, while those who just want an erotic adventure chiefly tend to look at bodies.
  5. (intransitive) to draw (the bow)

Conjugation
    Conjugation of tendere
infinitive tendere
auxiliary verb avere gerund tendendo
present participle tendente past participle teso
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tendo tendi tende tendiamo tendete tendono
imperfect tendevo tendevi tendeva tendevamo tendevate tendevano
past historic tesi tendesti tese tendemmo tendeste tesero
future tenderò tenderai tenderà tenderemo tenderete tenderanno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tenderei tenderesti tenderebbe tenderemmo tendereste tenderebbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present tenda tenda tenda tendiamo tendiate tendano
imperfect tendessi tendessi tendesse tendessimo tendeste tendessero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
tendi, non tendere tenda tendiamo tendete tendano
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Latin

Verb

tendēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of tendō

Verb

tendere

  1. present active infinitive of tendō
  2. second-person singular present passive imperative of tendō
  3. second-person singular present passive indicative of tendō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tendere, via German tendieren

Verb

tendere (present tense tenderer, passive tenderes, simple past tenderte, past participle tendert, present participle tenderende)

  1. to tend (mot / to do something)

References
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