Meaning
to go mad, to go crazy
- to go crazy, to go mad
- to go haywire, to malfunction
- to curdle (of sauce)
In a sentence
Con questo caldo sto per impazzire.
In this heat, I'm about to go crazy.
Ti è impazzita di nuovo la stampante?
Has your printer gone haywire again?
Attento, la maionese impazzisce se corri troppo.
Careful, the mayonnaise curdles if you go too fast.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| impazzire | infinitive |
| impazziamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| impazzisco | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| impazzite | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzisci | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| impazziscono | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| impazzisce | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| impazzivamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| impazzivo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| impazzivate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzivi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| impazzivano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| impazziva | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| impazzimmo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| impazzii | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| impazziste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzisti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| impazzirono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| impazzì | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| impazziremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| impazzirò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| impazzirete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzirai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| impazziranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| impazzirà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| impazziamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| impazzisca | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| impazziate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzisca | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| impazziscano | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| impazzisca | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| impazzissimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| impazzissi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| impazziste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzissi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| impazzissero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| impazzisse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| impazziremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| impazzirei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| impazzireste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| impazziresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| impazzirebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| impazzirebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| impazziamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| impazzite | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| impazzisci | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| impazzendo | gerund |
| impazzito | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Usually intransitive and takes essere in compound tenses: è impazzito/a, sono impazziti/e.
- For making someone crazy, prefer far impazzire: Mi fai impazzire. Impazzire alone usually means the subject goes crazy.
- Often used hyperbolically in speech: impazzire per qualcosa means to love or obsess over it, not literal madness.