Meaning
to surrender, yield
- to surrender, yield (territory, weapons)
In a sentence
Il soldato ha deciso di arrendere le armi.
The soldier decided to surrender his weapons.
Perché non volete arrendere la città subito?
Why don't you want to surrender the city right away?
Non dobbiamo arrendere il castello al nemico.
We must not surrender the castle to the enemy.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| arrendere | infinitive |
| arrendiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| arrendo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| arrendete | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| arrendi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| arrendono | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| arrende | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| arrendevamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| arrendevo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| arrendevate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| arrendevi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| arrendevano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| arrendeva | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| arrendemmo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| arresi | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| arrendeste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| arrendesti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| arresero | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| arrese | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| arrenderemo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| arrenderò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| arrenderete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| arrenderai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| arrenderanno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| arrenderà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| arrendiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| arrenda | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| arrendiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| arrenda | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| arrendano | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| arrenda | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| arrendessimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| arrendessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| arrendeste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| arrendessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| arrendessero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| arrendesse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| arrenderemmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| arrenderei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| arrendereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| arrenderesti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| arrenderebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| arrenderebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| arrendiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| arrendete | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| arrendi | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| arrendendo | gerund |
| arreso | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Usually reflexive in everyday Italian: arrendersi = to give up/surrender. Non-reflexive arrendere is rarer and more formal/transitive.
- Don't confuse arrendersi with rinunciare: arrendersi implies defeat or pressure; rinunciare is simply giving something up by choice.
- Arrendersi takes essere in compound tenses: si è arreso/arresa, si sono arresi. The past participle agrees with the subject.
- past participle arreso