frullare
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frulˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: frul‧là‧re
Verb
frullàre (first-person singular present frùllo, first-person singular past historic frullài, past participle frullàto, auxiliary avére or èssere)
- (transitive) to blend, to purée, to liquidize
- (intransitive) to flutter (of birds) [auxiliary avere][2]
- (intransitive, also figurative) to whirl (of spinning tops, wheels, etc.) [auxiliary avere][2]
- (intransitive, figurative, chiefly with a location around the head) to be thought (of thoughts, ideas, etc. often implying they are silly) [auxiliary essere][2]
- Che ti è frullato per la testa?!
- What were you thinking?!
- (literally, “What was whirling through your head?!”)
Conjugation
Conjugation of frullàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
References
- ^ frullare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nicola Zingarelli (2016), lo Zingarelli 2017, Vocabolario della lingua italiana (in Italian), Zanichelli, →ISBN, page 944