arrabbiando

Arrabbiando is the Italian gerund of the verb arrabiare, and in its reflexive form arrabbiarsi. It can express the action of getting angry (intransitive) or, in the transitive sense, the act of causing someone else to become angry. As a non-finite form, arrabbiando is used in ongoing or progressive constructions, often with auxiliary verbs such as stare or essere, depending on the verb it relates to.

Usage and nuances:

- When used with reflexive meaning, as in mi sto arrabbiando, it describes the speaker becoming angry. The form without a reflexive pronoun can appear in regional or colloquial speech, but mi sto arrabbiando is the standard construction for “I am getting angry.”

- When used transitively as arrabiare, arrabbiando indicates that something is provoking anger in another person, for example: Questa notizia lo sta arrabbiando (This news is making him angry).

- The past and other tenses are formed from the participle arrabbiato (angry) or from the finite verb forms, e.g., si è arrabbiato, gli sta arrabbiando, etc.

Etymology:

Arrabbiando derives from rabbia, meaning rage or anger, which in turn comes from Latin rabīa/rabia. The prefix and phonetic development in Italian through medieval and modern stages produced the current verb forms arrabiare and arrabbiarsi, with their respective gerund arrabbiando.

See also:

- Rabbia, the noun for anger.

- Arrabiare, the transitive verb meaning to anger someone.

- Arrabbiarsi, the reflexive verb meaning to become angry.