appartarsi

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.parˈtar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: ap‧par‧tàr‧si

Verb

appartàrsi (first-person singular present mi appàrto, first-person singular past historic mi appartài, past participle appartàto)

  1. reflexive of appartare
  2. to get away from others; to withdraw (oneself)
    appartarsi per parlarglito move aside to talk to him
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Chi non desiderava un posto in cui aver la libertà di appartarsi una volta ogni tanto?
      Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.
      (literally, “Who didn't desire a place in which they could have the liberty to get away every once in a while?”)

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