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domandare

ask

verb doh-mahn-DAH-reh Less Common

Origin: from Latin 'demandare', to entrust

Usage Note

Domandare means to ask a question and is interchangeable with chiedere, though chiedere is more common in speech. To ask oneself something is the reflexive domandarsi ('to wonder').

Examples

"Mi domando dove sia andato."

Natural Translation

I wonder where he went.

Literal Translation

To-myself I-ask where be gone.

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