English translation of 'dormire'
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intransitive verb auxiliary verb: avere
1. to sleep
(essere addormentato) to be asleep ⧫ be sleeping
sta dormendo she’s sleeping
andare a dormire to go to bed
vado a dormire I’m going to bed
abbiamo dormito a Bologna we spent the night in Bologna
il caffè non mi fa dormire coffee keeps me awake
sono pensieri che non mi fanno dormire I’m losing sleep thinking about all this
i campi dormono sotto la neve (figurative) the fields slumber under the snow
2. (fraseologia)
dormire come un ghiro to sleep like a log
dormire della grossa to sleep soundly ⧫ be dead to the world
dormire con gli occhi aperti to sleep with one eye open
dormire in piedi (essere stanco) to be asleep on one’s feet; (essere imbambolato) to be half asleep
dormire tranquillo o tra due guanciali (senza preoccupazioni) to rest easy
è meglio dormirci sopra you’d (or we’d etc) better sleep on it
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transitive verb
dormire sonni tranquilli/agitati to have a good/bad night’s sleep ⧫ sleep well/badly
dormire il sonno del giusto to sleep the sleep of the just
dormire il sonno eterno to sleep the sleep of the dead
Verb conjugations for dormire
Presentio dormotu dormilui/lei/Lei dormenoi dormiamovoi dormiteloro dormonoFutureio dormiròtu dormirailui/lei/Lei dormirànoi dormiremovoi dormireteloro dormirannoImperfectio dormivotu dormivilui/lei/Lei dormivanoi dormivamovoi dormivateloro dormivanoPresent Perfectio ho dormitotu hai dormitolui/lei/Lei ha dormitonoi abbiamo dormitovoi avete dormitoloro hanno dormito
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Ho dormito molto male, stanotte, ho avuto un vero incubo.
In other languages
dormire
British English: sleep
/sliːp/ VERB
When you sleep, you rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.
During the car journey, the baby slept.
- American English: sleep /ˈslip/
- Arabic: يَنَامُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: dormir
- Chinese: 睡觉
- Croatian: spavati
- Czech: spát
- Danish: sove
- Dutch: slapen
- European Spanish: dormir
- Finnish: nukkua
- French: dormir
- German: schlafen
- Greek: κοιμάμαι
- Italian: dormire
- Japanese: 眠る
- Korean: 자다
- Norwegian: sove
- Polish: spać
- European Portuguese: dormir
- Romanian: a dormi
- Russian: спать
- Latin American Spanish: dormir
- Swedish: sova
- Thai: นอน
- Turkish: uyumak
- Ukrainian: спати
- Vietnamese: ngủ
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