Daily Verb Lesson: Italian for defend is difendere
The Italian verb for defend is the irregular -ERE verb difendere.... imagine we will use DIFFERENT techniques to defend DEARIE!
Difendere can also mean: to stand up for, to uphold, to champion, to fight.
Related words include:
- difendersi (da) (vr) : to defend oneself (against), to stand up for oneself.
- il difensivo (nm) : defensive, defence (arms, position, war).
- essere/stare sulla difensiva (nf) : (to be on the) defensive, fend.
- difendibile (adj) : defensible, tenable, defendable.
Other irregular ERE Verbs with changes in the Passato Remoto and the Past Participle conjugations include : ascendere,apprendere, comprendere, discendere, distendere, estendere, offendere, prendere, rendere, sospendere, spendere.
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Imagine we will use DIFFERENT techniques
to defend DEARIE!
| TENSE | ||||||
| Present Presente defend |
difendo | difendi | difende | difendiamo | difendete | difendono |
| Past Imperfect Imperfetto defended |
difendevo | difendevi | difendeva | difendevamo | difendevate | difendevano |
| Simple Past Passato remoto defended |
difesi | difendesti | difese | difendemmo | difendeste | difesero |
| Future Futuro semplice will defend |
difenderò | difenderai | difenderà | difenderemo | difenderete | difenderanno |
| Conditional Condizionale would defend |
difenderei | difenderesti | difenderebbe | difenderemmo | difendereste | difenderebbero |
| Subjunctive Congiuntivo Presente may defend |
difenda | difenda | difenda | difendiamo | difendiate | difendano |
| Present Perfect Passato Prossimo have defended |
ho difeso | hai difeso | ha difeso | abbiamo difeso | avete difeso | hanno difeso |
| Past Perfect Trapassato Prossimo had defended |
avevo difeso | avevi difeso | aveva difeso | avevamo difeso | avevate difeso | avevano difeso |
| Future Perfect Futuro Anteriore will have defended |
avrò difeso | avrai difeso | avrà difeso | avremo difeso | avrete difeso | avranno difeso |
| Conditional Perfect Condizionale Passato would have defended |
avrei difeso | avresti difeso | avrebbe difeso | avremmo difeso | avreste difeso | avrebbero difeso |
| Perfect Subjunctive Congiuntivo Passato may have defended |
abbia difeso | abbia difeso | abbia difeso | abbiamo difeso | abbiate difeso | abbiano difeso |
| Imperative Imperativo defend! |
difendi! non difendere |
(non) difenda! | (non) difendiamo! | (non) difendete! | (non) difendano! | |
✔ Difendere is an irregular -ERE verb.
✔ Learn difendere and it will reinforce the pattern for other -ERE verbs with the same irregular pattern.
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