Sospendiamo

Sospendiamo is the first-person plural present indicative form of the Italian verb sospendere, meaning to suspend or to pause something. It can also function as the imperative form used to propose a collective action, as in the expression “Let us suspend.”

In general, sospendere is a transitive verb that describes interrupting or delaying a process, service, decision, or obligation for a period of time. Common contexts include administrative or operational pauses (for example, suspending a service for maintenance), legal or disciplinary actions (such as suspending a sentence), and procedural pauses in workflows. Examples in Italian include “Sospendiamo temporaneamente il servizio” (We suspend the service temporarily) and “Sospendiamo la riunione finché non arriva ulteriori informazioni” (Let us suspend the meeting until more information arrives).

Etymology and related forms: Sospendere derives from Latin suspendere, formed from sub- ‘under’ and pendere ‘to hang,’ conveying the sense of hanging a decision or action in abeyance. Related forms include the other conjugations of sospendere (sospendo, sospendi, sospende, sospendete, sospendono) and its gerund sospendendo and past participle sospeso. The verb is commonly used across domains such as law, administration, technology, and everyday language. The English equivalents are “to suspend,” “to put on hold,” or “to pause.”

See also: suspender, suspension, suspendere (Latin root), pause, hold.