Rimasti

Rimasti is the masculine plural past participle of the Italian verb rimanere, and it also functions as an adjective meaning "remaining" or "left over." The full set of participle forms includes rimasto (masc. sing.), rimasta (fem. sing.), rimasti (masc. pl.), and rimaste (fem. pl.). It is commonly used in compound tenses with essere, as in sono rimasti due pezzi, meaning "two pieces remained" or "two pieces are left."

As an attributive adjective, rimasti describes nouns that are left after a process or event. For example, i pezzi rimasti della torta means "the remaining pieces of the cake." The same form appears in phrases indicating what remains after some action, such as una parte rimasta del progetto, "a part that remains of the project."

Etymologically, rimasti derives from Latin remanēre, formed from re- plus manēre, meaning to stay back or to remain. In modern Italian, rimasti agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: rimasto, rimasta, rimasti, or rimaste accordingly.

Rimasti is primarily a grammatical form used in everyday Italian to express continuity, leftovers, or the state of having stayed behind, whether in narrative past tenses or in descriptive phrases. See also rimanere, resto, remaining.