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testare

to test

verb tes-TAH-reh Rare

Usage Note

Testare is a calque of English 'to test', now standard in Italian technical, medical, and everyday use: testare un software (to test software), testare un farmaco (to test a drug). It takes avere as auxiliary. The noun il test (also borrowed from English) is invariable in Italian: i test, never i testi in this sense.

Examples

"Dobbiamo testare il sistema prima del lancio."

Natural Translation

We need to test the system before the launch.

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