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indispensabile

indispensable

adjective een-dee-spehn-SAH-bee-leh Less Common

Origin: from Latin 'dispensare', to weigh out

Also means

essential

Usage Note

Indispensabile keeps one form for masculine and feminine singular, taking -i in the plural (strumenti indispensabili). It often appears with è in the fixed structure è indispensabile che + subjunctive ('it is essential that').

Examples

"Il tuo aiuto è indispensabile."

Natural Translation

Your help is indispensable.

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