tenere fede
Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to hold faith”.
Verb
tenére fede (first-person singular present tèngo fede, first-person singular past historic ténni fede or tènni fede, past participle tenùto fede, first-person singular future terrò fede, auxiliary avére) [+ a (object)]
- to respect an existing promise, commitment, etc.; to keep; to honor
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Insistette che avrebbe continuato a tener fede alle sue responsabilità, da persona che «non ha mai cercato il potere»...
- He insisted that he would continue to fulfill his responsibility, as someone who had "never, ever been seeking power"...
- (literally, “He insisted that he would have continued to honor his responsibilities, as a person who "had never sought power"...”)
Conjugation
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