Meaning
to prepare, to get ready
- to prepare, arrange, or set up something (transitive)
- to get ready to do something, be about to (reflexive 'apprestarsi a')
In a sentence
La delegazione si appresta a firmare l'accordo di pace.
The delegation is getting ready to sign the peace agreement.
Ci apprestavamo a partire quando è scoppiato un forte temporale.
We were about to leave when a heavy thunderstorm broke out.
Il comitato ha apprestato tutte le misure necessarie per l'evento.
The committee prepared all the necessary measures for the event.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| apprestare | infinitive |
| appresto | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| appresti | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| appresta | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| apprestiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| apprestate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| apprestano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| apprestavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| apprestavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| apprestava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| apprestavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| apprestavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| apprestavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| apprestai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| apprestasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| apprestò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| apprestammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| apprestaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| apprestarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| appresterò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| appresterai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| appresterà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| appresteremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| appresterete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| appresteranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| appresti | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| appresti | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| appresti | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| apprestiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| apprestiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| apprestino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| apprestassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| apprestassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| apprestasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| apprestassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| apprestaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| apprestassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| appresterei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| appresteresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| appresterebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| appresteremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| apprestereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| appresterebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| appresta | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| apprestiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| apprestate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| apprestando | gerund |
| apprestato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Formal: preferred in written and literary Italian over informal 'prepararsi'.
- Nearly always used pronominally as 'apprestarsi a' followed by an infinitive.