Definitions For Capisce

Interjection

(slang) “get it, get it?”; “understood?”.

Usage notes

Often used in a threatening manner, in imitation of the way the is often portrayed in popular culture and entertainment media. Without a question mark at the end, it is sometimes used to mean, “I understand”, as an American colloquialism. In Italian, that would actually mean “he/she/it understands” or a formal “you understand”. To mean “I understand”, one would actually say capisco.

Translations

Armenian: հասկացա՞ր Dutch: begrepen? French: pigé? German: verstanden?, kapiert? Italian: capito?, intesi?, capisci?, capisce?, capite? Japanese: 分かる, 分かりますか？ (わかりますか？, wakarimasu ka?), 分かる, 分かりましたか？ (わかりましたか？, wakarimashita ka?) Polish: kapisz? , rozumiesz? Portuguese: entende?, entendes?, entendem?, entendeis? Russian: понял?, m Spanish: ¿entiende?, ¿entiendes?, ¿entienden?, ¿entendéis? Swedish: begrips?, förstått?, fattaru?

Alternative forms

capice capicé capiche capeesh capisch capishe coppish kabish

Etymology

Borrowed (with a change of spelling reflecting the slang pronunciation) from , the second-person singular present indicative form of capire, , to understand, through from , from , from , from the root *keh₂p-, , to grab, to seize.