Meaning
to consecrate
- to ordain
- to anoint
- to establish
In a sentence
Questo premio può consacrare la sua carriera.
This award can establish his career.
Hai consacrato troppo tempo a quel progetto?
Did you devote too much time to that project?
Non voglio consacrare il weekend solo al lavoro.
I don't want to devote the weekend only to work.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| consacrare | infinitive |
| consacriamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| consacro | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| consacrate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| consacri | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| consacrano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| consacra | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| consacravamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| consacravo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| consacravate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| consacravi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| consacravano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| consacrava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| consacrammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| consacrai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| consacraste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| consacrasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| consacrarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| consacrò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| consacreremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| consacrerò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| consacrerete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| consacrerai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| consacreranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| consacrerà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| consacriamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| consacri | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| consacriate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| consacri | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| consacrino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| consacri | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| consacrassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| consacrassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| consacraste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| consacrassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| consacrassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| consacrasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| consacreremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| consacrerei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| consacrereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| consacreresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| consacrerebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| consacrerebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| consacriamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| consacrate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| consacra | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| consacrando | gerund |
| consacrato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Often more formal than dedicare. Use consacrare for religion, prestige, or making something definitively recognized.
- In nonreligious use, it often takes a as in consacrare la vita a qualcosa, not directly with the goal.
- With essere in compound tenses when reflexive: si è consacrato alla musica. Non-reflexive usually takes avere: ha consacrato anni allo studio.