Meaning
to come to terms with
- to accept, understand, or come to terms with something (almost always pronominal 'capacitarsi')
- to convince or persuade someone of something (transitive, formal)
In a sentence
Non riesco a capacitarmi di questa decisione improvvisa.
I cannot wrap my head around this sudden decision.
Ancora non mi capacito di come sia potuto accadere un errore simile.
I still can't fathom how such an error could have happened.
Nessuno in ufficio si capacitava di quel licenziamento inaspettato.
Nobody in the office could make sense of that unexpected dismissal.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| capacitare | infinitive |
| capacito | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| capaciti | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| capacita | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| capacitiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| capacitate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| capacitano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| capacitavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| capacitavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| capacitava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| capacitavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| capacitavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| capacitavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| capacitai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| capacitasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| capacitò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| capacitammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| capacitaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| capacitarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| capaciterò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| capaciterai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| capaciterà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| capaciteremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| capaciterete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| capaciteranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| capaciti | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| capaciti | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| capaciti | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| capacitiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| capacitiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| capacitino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| capacitassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| capacitassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| capacitasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| capacitassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| capacitaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| capacitassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| capaciterei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| capaciteresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| capaciterebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| capaciteremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| capacitereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| capaciterebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| capacita | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| capacitiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| capacitate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| capacitando | gerund |
| capacitato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Almost always used reflexively ('capacitarsi') with the preposition 'di', especially in negative sentences like 'non mi capacito'.