fregarne

== Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /freˈɡar.ne/, (central Italy) /freˈɡan.ne/ Rhymes: -arne, (central Italy) -anne Hyphenation: fre‧gàr‧ne === Etymology 1 === fregare +‎ -ne ==== Verb ==== fregàrne (pronominal, impersonal, third-person singular present ne fréga, third-person singular past historic ne fregò, past participle fregàtone, auxiliary èssere) (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to be important [with a ‘to someone’ and di ‘about someone/something’] (idiomatically translated as English care or English give a damn with the object of a as the subject) Di lui non me ne fregava niente prima, e non me ne frega niente adesso. ― I didn't care about him before, and I don't care about him now. (literally, “Of him it wasn't important to me before, and isn't important to me now.”) (archaic) to not be important [with a ‘to someone’ and di ‘about someone/something’] (idiomatically translated as English not care or English not give a damn with the object of a as the subject) ===== Usage notes ===== Usually reinforced by adding niente, nulla, or a synonym: non me ne frega niente/nulla ― I don't give a damn (about that) non te ne frega un cazzo, vero? ― you don't give a fuck (about that), do you? Despite apparent ungrammaticality, the dative form of the personal pronoun is usually used twice: one as either a weak dative personal pronoun (me, te, ce, ve) placed before the ne part of the verb, or the compound gliene (for 3rd-person forms), the other with the preposition a followed by an accusative pronoun (me, te, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro), a demonstrative pronoun, or a noun: a me non me ne frega niente ― I don't give a damn (about that) ma che gliene frega, a quello? ― why does he care? (literally, “but what to him is important to that one?”) a Giovanni non gliene frega niente ― Giovanni doesn't care (about that) The a + [me, te, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro] construction can be placed at either end of the phrase: a loro non gliene frega niente ― they don't give a damn (about that) is the same as: non gliene frega niente, a loro ― they don't give a damn (about that) ===== Conjugation ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== fregarne compound of the infinitive fregare with ne === References === fregare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana === Anagrams === frangere, refrange