spezzaste

Spezzaste is the second-person plural passato remoto form of the Italian verb spezzare, meaning “you broke” or “you shattered.” It is used with the subject voi and appears mainly in written Italian, especially in literary or historical narration. In everyday speech, speakers typically use the passato prossimo: avete spezzato.

Form and conjugation: The verb spezzare is a regular -are verb in the passato remoto. The expected endings for each person are: io spezzai, tu spezzasti, lui/lei spezzò, noi spezzammo, voi spezzaste, essi spezzarono. The form spezzaste thus corresponds to the second-person plural and preserves the double z in the stem spezz-.

Usage notes: The passato remoto is common in formal writing and traditional literature, but it is rarely used in casual spoken Italian outside some regional varieties. Spezzaste conveys a completed action in the past by you all and is often part of a sequence of past-tense events in narrative contexts.

Example: Voi spezzaste la bottiglia durante la lite. In contemporary conversation, the same idea would more commonly be expressed with the passato prossimo: Avete spezzato la bottiglia.

Related forms: The infinitive spezzare; other passato remoto forms for spezzare include spezzai (io), spezzasti (tu), spezzò (lui/lei), spezzammo (noi), spezzarono (essi). The verb is semantically linked to spezzare and to other verbs meaning “to break.”