-gli

Italian Pronoun it pronoun it enclitic it gli it dare to give → it dargli dargli to give him; to give them it vendere to sell → it vendersi vendergli to sell to him; to sell to them it servire to serve → it servirsi servirgli to serve to him; to serve to them Usage notes Appended to present active infinitive verb forms to derive dative forms when the object is third singular masculine or third plural person. The final -e of the original infinitive is removed : it -are → it -argli it -ere → it -ergli it -ire → it -irgli Where the verb ends in -rre, the final re is removed, leaving behind just an -r: it introdurre to introduce; to insert → it introdurre introdurgli to insert in him; to insert in them In any case, after the suffixation, there is only a single r and no vowels immediately before -gli. In older Italian, by assimilation, the m preceding the ⟨l⟩ of the enclitic may become dental (m → n) in the apocopic first person plural: lasciam(o)gli → lasciangli. Compare it sommi contraction.