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avventurare

to venture

verb ahv-ven-too-RAH-reh Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Origin: From avventura ('adventure'), from Medieval Latin adventura, 'thing about to happen.'

Also means

to risk

Usage Note

Avventurare is most commonly used reflexively as avventurarsi ('to venture into, to dare to go') — si è avventurato nel bosco ('he ventured into the forest'). The non-reflexive transitive use ('to risk something') is rarer and more literary. It takes essere in the reflexive form and avere in the transitive.

Examples

"Non mi avventurerei in quel quartiere di notte."

Natural Translation

I wouldn't venture into that neighbourhood at night.

Literal Translation

Not myself I-would-venture into that neighbourhood at night.

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