Un americano voglie aiuto con la lingua italiana.

[Sudhir Thakur]

Buongiorno, io sono un americano studiando l'italiano. Nel mio dizionario
esiste la parola "disporre," o "to arrange, to prepare, to order". Ma
questa parola termina in "orre" ed io solo posso usare i verbi che terminano
con "are", "ire," o "ere." Come si lo coniuga? Perchè termina en "orre"?

Io non uso questo "newsgroup" spesso; per favore mandimi la risposta nel
e-mail.

Grazie,
Dev Thakur
tha...@worldnet.att.net

[Motty Levi]

Dear Dev,

the ending -orre is identical to the 2nd conjugation -ere. As a matter
of fact "disporre" derives from the Latin "disponere". If you studied
Spanish, the language the conserved best the ancient Latin conjugations,
you'd have less problems in Italian conjugation trouble-shooting.

Italian is a relatively new European language compared to English,
Spanish and even Yiddish, hence Dante's "Inferno" was the first written
work in Italian. Until Dante, throughout the Italian peninsula people
used to communicate in various late-Latin dialects- therefore you can
still find very strong regional inflections in Italian language (which-
to a certain extend is fantastic!).

Italian often tends to gap consonantic pronounciation problems
stressing the word into a more melodic and easier-to-pronounce form,
that's why you sometimes find exceptional verbal radici like -orre.
-orre is always 2nd conjugation.

Have nice studies,

Motty Levi