ripassare

Ripassare is an Italian verb that means to review, to rehearse, or to go over again. It is a regular verb belonging to the first conjugation with the infinitive ending –are. The present indicative form is ripasso, ripassi, ripassa, ripassiamo, ripassate, ripassano. In the past tense, ripassare produces the past participle ripassato, which combines with auxiliary verbs: ho ripassato, ha ripassato, and così via. The reflexive form, ripassarsi, is used when one reviews oneself or one's own work.

In educational contexts ripassare is often used to describe the process of studying material again before an exam. The verb can also appear in everyday speech, such as ripassare una telefonata (to listen to a phone call again) or ripassare un percorso di memoria (to rehearse a route). In musical performance it signifies the repeated practice of a passage to achieve fluency. In sports it refers to training drills performed repeatedly to reinforce technique.

The word originates from the Italian noun ripasso, meaning "repass" or "re-edit". Though largely an everyday verb, ripassare is occasionally encountered in formal writing, literary works, or academic articles. It remains a versatile term representing the act of repetition for improvement, clarification, or confirmation.