He coughs in Italian 🇮🇹

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Tips to Remember the Verb:
• Associate the sound “toss” in English with a similar sound when someone coughs. Imagine someone “tossing” air out as they cough.
• Notice that the root “tossi-” appears in several forms (io tossisco, tu tossisci…) which can help you remember its pattern.

Explanations:
• The infinitive is tossire, meaning “to cough.”
• “Lui tossisce” is the third-person singular present indicative form, translating to “he coughs.”
• It is a regular verb in the sense that its conjugations follow a recognizable pattern (with some stem changes in pronunciation).

Other Words with a Similar Meaning:
• Tossacchiare – sometimes used to indicate coughing, often in a more repetitive or hacking manner.

Conjugations of Tossire:

Present Indicative
 io tossisco    (“I cough”)
 tu tossisci    (“you cough”)
 lui/lei tossisce  (“he/she coughs”)
 noi tossiamo    (“we cough”)
 voi tosciate    (“you [plural] cough”)
 loro tossiscono   (“they cough”)

Passato Prossimo (Present Perfect)
 io ho tossito   (“I have coughed”)
 tu hai tossito   (“you have coughed”)
 lui/lei ha tossito (“he/she has coughed”)
 noi abbiamo tossito (“we have coughed”)
 voi avete tossito  (“you [plural] have coughed”)
 loro hanno tossito  (“they have coughed”)

Imperfect
 io tossivo    (“I was coughing”)
 tu tossivi    (“you were coughing”)
 lui/lei tossiva  (“he/she was coughing”)
 noi tossivamo   (“we were coughing”)
 voi tossivate   (“you [plural] were coughing”)
 loro tossivano   (“they were coughing”)

Future
 io tossirò    (“I will cough”)
 tu tossirai    (“you will cough”)
 lui/lei tossirà  (“he/she will cough”)
 noi tossiremo   (“we will cough”)
 voi tossirete   (“you [plural] will cough”)
 loro tossiranno  (“they will cough”)

Conditional
 io tossirei    (“I would cough”)
 tu tossiresti   (“you would cough”)
 lui/lei tossirebbe (“he/she would cough”)
 noi tossiremmo   (“we would cough”)
 voi tossireste   (“you [plural] would cough”)
 loro tossirebbero  (“they would cough”)

Subjunctive Present
 che io tossisca   (“that I cough”)
 che tu tossisca   (“that you cough”)
 che lui/lei tossisca (“that he/she coughs”)
 che noi tossiamo   (“that we cough”)
 che voi tossiate   (“that you [plural] cough”)
 che loro tossiscano  (“that they cough”)

Example Sentences:
1. Quando fa freddo, lui tossisce spesso.
 Translation: When it’s cold, he coughs often.
2. Dopo aver preso l’influenza, lui ha tossito per giorni.
 Translation: After catching the flu, he coughed for days.
3. Se non ti senti bene, potrebbe essere utile che lui non tossisca troppo in pubblico.
 Translation: If you don’t feel well, it might be useful that he doesn’t cough too much in public.

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