Meaning
to oppress, to weigh down
- to oppress, subjugate
- to weigh down, burden, stifle
In a sentence
Questo caldo mi opprime tutto il giorno.
This heat suffocates me all day.
Il regime dittatoriale ha oppresso la popolazione per anni.
The dictatorial regime oppressed the population for years.
Non opprimere tuo fratello con troppe regole.
Don't oppress your brother with too many rules.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| opprimere | infinitive |
| opprimiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| opprimo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| opprimete | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimono | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| opprime | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimevamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| opprimevo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| opprimevate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimevi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimevano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| opprimeva | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimemmo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| oppressi | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| opprimeste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimesti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| oppressero | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| oppresse | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimeremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| opprimerò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| opprimerete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimerai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimeranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| opprimerà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| opprima | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| opprimiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| opprima | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimano | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| opprima | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimessimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| opprimessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| opprimeste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimessero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| opprimesse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimeremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| opprimerei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| opprimereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimeresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimerebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| opprimerebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| opprimiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| opprimete | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| opprimi | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| opprimendo | gerund |
| oppresso | past · participle |
Usage notes
- More formal and stronger than opprimere than stressare or soffocare in everyday speech; common in writing, news, and political or psychological contexts.
- Often used figuratively: mi opprime, un caldo opprimente, un senso di colpa che opprime. Less common for literal physical crushing in conversation.
- Regular transitive verb; takes avere in compound tenses: ha oppresso. Past participle is oppresso, not *opprito or *oppresso with wrong agreement.
- past participle oppresso