Meaning
to comply, agree
- To agree, consent, or yield indulgently to someone's wishes or requests
In a sentence
Il direttore ha accondisceso a tutte le richieste dei dipendenti.
The director complied with all the employees' requests.
Perché dovremmo accondiscendere a un compromesso così svantaggioso?
Why should we agree to such an unfavorable compromise?
Il padre non accondiscendeva mai ai capricci dei figli.
The father never yielded to his children's whims.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| accondiscendere | infinitive |
| accondiscendo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscendi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscende | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscendiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendete | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscendono | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscendevo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscendevi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscendeva | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscendevamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendevate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscendevano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscesi | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscendesti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscese | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscendemmo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendeste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscesero | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscenderò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscenderai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscenderà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscenderemo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscenderete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscenderanno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscenda | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscenda | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscenda | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscendiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscendano | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscendessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscendessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscendesse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscendessimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendeste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscendessero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscenderei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| accondiscenderesti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscenderebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| accondiscenderemmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscenderebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| accondiscendi | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| accondiscendiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| accondiscendete | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| accondiscendendo | gerund |
| accondisceso | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Formal: avoid in casual colloquial conversation.
- Takes the preposition 'a' before a noun or an infinitive (e.g. 'accondiscendere a una richiesta').
- Takes 'avere' in compound tenses.
- past participle accondisceso