Significado
add up, make sense
- to balance, add up, or tally (especially accounts or numbers)
- to make sense or be coherent (figurative, often in the negative)
- to make square in shape (geometry/crafts)
En una frase
Ho ricontrollato le spese, ma i conti ancora non quadrano.
I rechecked the expenses, but the numbers still don't add up.
C'è un dettaglio nel suo racconto che non mi quadra affatto.
There is a detail in his story that doesn't make sense to me at all.
Alla fine del mese riusciamo sempre a far quadrare il bilancio.
At the end of the month, we always manage to balance the budget.
Formas de la palabra (48)
| Palabra | Formas de la palabra |
|---|---|
| quadrare | infinitive |
| quadro | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| quadri | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| quadra | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| quadriamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| quadrate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| quadrano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| quadravo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| quadravi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| quadrava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| quadravamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| quadravate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| quadravano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| quadrai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| quadrasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| quadrò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| quadrammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| quadraste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| quadrarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| quadrerò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| quadrerai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| quadrerà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| quadreremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| quadrerete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| quadreranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| quadri | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| quadri | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| quadri | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| quadriamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| quadriate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| quadrino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| quadrassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| quadrassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| quadrasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| quadrassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| quadraste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| quadrassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| quadrerei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| quadreresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| quadrerebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| quadreremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| quadrereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| quadrerebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| quadra | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| quadriamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| quadrate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| quadrando | gerund |
| quadrato | past · participle |
Notas de uso
- In figurative and accounting senses ('to add up'), it takes 'avere' as its auxiliary.
- Very common in the negative phrase 'qualcosa non quadra' (something doesn't add up).