mettere

Sentences

Un uomo
🧑‍🦱

finge di essere ricco
🤑

per mettere alla prova la fidanzata del figlio .

A man pretends to be rich to test his son's girlfriend.

Quando finalmente riuscì a mettere in moto qualcosa , fu capace anche di alzare leggermente la testa .

When he finally managed to set something in motion, he was also able to raise his head slightly.

(transitive) to put, to place, to lay, to set
(transitive) to deposit
(transitive) to bet, to wager
(transitive) to cut (new teeth)
(transitive) to lead (someone) to, to provoke in (someone), to make (someone) feel
(colloquial, transitive) to charge (an amount of money)
(transitive) to don, to put on
(intransitive) to give, to lead onto (of a street, road, etc.)
(intransitive) to bud, to develop (of plants)
(intransitive) to turn out (well or badly)
(intransitive, slang, vulgar) in the form "metterlo", literally "to put it": to penetrate sexually
(intransitive, slang, vulgar) in the form "metterlo", literally "to put it": to cheat, to swindle, to scam

put into

put on clothes

put onto

turn to account

pass oneself off

place deposit

Opposite of

togliere

ponere

mettere dentro

Frequency

Hyphenated as

mét‧te‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmet.te.re/

Inherited from Latin mittere, probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with Spanish meter, Occitan metre, and English mission.

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