camminano

Camminano is the third-person plural present indicative form of the Italian verb camminare, which means to walk. It is used when referring to a group of people who walk or are walking in the present tense. Camminare is a regular -are verb, and its present indicative endings are cammino, cammini, cammina, camminiamo, camminate, camminano.

In standard Italian, camminano describes a current or habitual action of walking by multiple subjects. The progressive aspect—they are walking—is typically expressed with stare plus the gerund (stanno camminando) rather than camminano alone. Examples: Loro camminano nel parco. Camminano spesso insieme.

The noun cammino means a path or journey, and the related adjective and participles derive from the same root, linking the idea of movement on foot with the concept of a path or route. The form camminano appears in everyday language and literature as the natural third-person plural present tense of camminare.

Etymology is linked to the noun cammino (path, journey) and to the broader family of Romance verbs formed with the -are suffix. Camminare itself is used widely across Italian regions, with minor dialectal variations in some forms or pronunciations but the core conjugation remains regular.

See also: Cammino; Camminata; Camminare (verb).