mangiato

Mangiato is the past participle of the Italian verb mangiare, meaning to eat. It denotes the result or completed action of eating and is used primarily in compound tenses such as the passato prossimo, where it commonly appears as ho mangiato, hai mangiato, ha mangiato, etc. The form also appears in other compound tenses with the auxiliary avere, and in passive constructions with essere, where it agrees in gender and number with the subject (for example: il pane è stato mangiato; le patate sono state mangiate).

In Italian grammar, the past participle with avere may change to agree with a preceding direct object. This yields forms such as l’ho mangiata (I have eaten it, feminine singular) or le ho mangiate (the potatoes I ate). When the direct object follows the verb, the participle typically remains invariable (ho mangiato la mela). The feminine and plural endings arise from agreement with the object pronouns or nouns that precede the tense.

Etymology traces mangiato to mangiare, with the suffix -ato forming the standard Italian past participle. As an adjective, mangiato can occur in fixed expressions describing something that has already been eaten, such as pane mangiato or cibo mangiato, though this usage is less common than its verbal function.

Translations into English are usually "eaten" (as a participle) or "ate" when used in past tenses like the passato prossimo, depending on context. The standard literary past tense in Italian is the passato remoto for formal writing, where mangiai would be the form, though it is rarely used in everyday speech.