if you are shock or stunned Something that makes all the color drain from your face. A great word you can use to describe this feeling in Italian is stunned.
stunned
shocked/shocked
stunned is an adjective whose ending changes depending on the gender and number of the subject. Still present if subject is male stunned and -o Finish. The corresponding word for female is frightened And their respective plurals are shock and frightened.
When he heard the news, he looked at me in shock.
When he heard the news, he looked at me in shock.
it comes from verb frightened this means become pale/white (With fear, shock, surprise, disgust).
you will often see stunned used with verbs stay (stay), as shown in the following example:
I was shocked by his rudeness.
I was shocked by his rudeness.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
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