The Lazy Etymologist
 

Hey, I'm expanding my dictum for etymology, right? So I'm looking up words that relate to "finish" and I came up with an Italian verb, with a description line that I really can't make heads or tails of, and I'm too lazy to look it up, so let's see who our etymologists are:

fīnīvī: second-person singular indicative imperfect of finire



What the heck does this mean?

finire means "to finish; end".

The Romantic Languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, etc. have this second-person tense, e.g. known more commonly by the French word 'vous'

The bracket usually goes like:

Verb Tense Conjugation

the word you are offering (which is in the 2nd row, 1st column) is the imperfect (imperfetto) past tense of the verb finire, which should only used to describe an action presented by a singular person (you- tu).

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If you still can't follow the variable conjugations for the verb, one of my bookmarked sites finally comes in handy for you!

Try this for further states: Coniugazione di finire - WordReference.com

heh... when I looked at and clicked on the title of this thread, I could've sworn it said "the lazy entomologist.

Need...
sleep...

/threadjack

I'd suggest catching another bug.

Etymology isn't a lazy quasi-science.