ripetuta

Ripetuta is the feminine form of the Italian past participle of the verb ripetere, meaning to repeat. In general usage it functions as an adjective meaning “repeated” or “repeatedly,” and can also appear as a past participle in compound tenses.

Morphology and grammar: ripetuta agrees in gender and number with the noun it describes. The full paradigm is ripetuto (m. sing.), ripetuta (f. sing.), ripetuti (m. pl.), ripetute (f. pl.). When used with essere or avere in compound tenses, the participle can agree with a preceding direct object: Le parole ripetute sono state ascoltate; La domanda che ho ripetuta è stata corretta.

Usage: as an adjective, ripetuta modifies a noun to signal repetition, for example, una frase ripetuta (a repeated sentence) or una parola ripetuta (a repeated word). As a past participle, it is used with ripetere to form phrases like ho ripetuto la frase (I repeated the sentence) or è stata una domanda ripetuta (it was a repeated question). In relative clauses the participle may show agreement with the antecedent, as in Le domande che ho ripetuto (the questions I repeated).

Other contexts: in some musical editions, ripetuta has historically appeared as a directive indicating that a section should be played again; modern scores more commonly use instructions such as ripeti or da capo.

See also: ripetere, ripetizione, repeatedly (ripetutamente). Ripetuta is primarily a grammatical form rather than a standalone concept, and its exact use depends on gender, number, and the surrounding syntactic structure.