Meaning
to promote, encourage
- to promote, to encourage
- to promote (in a job); to pass (a student to the next year)
- to advertise, to market
In a sentence
Il comune vuole promuovere eventi culturali per i giovani.
The city wants to promote cultural events for young people.
Hanno promosso Luca a capo del team.
They promoted Luca to team leader.
Come possiamo promuovere questo prodotto online?
How can we promote this product online?
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| promuovere | infinitive |
| promuoviamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| promuovo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| promuovete | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| promuovi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| promuovono | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| promuove | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| promuovevamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| promuovevo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| promuovevate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| promuovevi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| promuovevano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| promuoveva | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| promuovemmo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| promossi | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| promuoveste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| promuovesti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| promossero | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| promosse | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| promuoveremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| promuoverò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| promuoverete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| promuoverai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| promuoveranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| promuoverà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| promuoviamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| promuova | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| promuoviate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| promuova | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| promuovano | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| promuova | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| promuovessimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| promuovessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| promuoveste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| promuovessi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| promuovessero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| promuovesse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| promuoveremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| promuoverei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| promuovereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| promuoveresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| promuoverebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| promuoverebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| promuoviamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| promuovete | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| promuovi | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| promuovendo | gerund |
| promosso | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Use promuovere for institutions, campaigns, products, or advancement; prefer incoraggiare for directly urging a person to do something.
- For school/job advancement, promuovere takes a direct object: Hanno promosso Marco. The opposite is bocciare at school, not *demuovere*.
- Promuovere un prodotto sounds natural for marketing. Pubblicizzare stresses advertising exposure; sponsorizzare often means financially backing an event or person.
- past participle promosso