Il verbo irregolare Awake significa svegliare o svegliarsi, destarsi, risvegliarsi; ma anche metaforicamente rendersi conto, aprire gli occhi… Awake è anche un aggettivo: significa sveglio, allerta, vivo…
Ecco la declinazione del verbo Awake:
| present | past simple | past participle | traduzione |
| awake | awoke, awakened | awoken, awakened | svegliare, svegliarsi |
Ed ecco alcuni aforismi che ne illustrano l’uso:
To awake from death is to die in peace.
Doug Horton
Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep
(in questo Awake è usato come aggettivo)
Michel de Montaigne
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Bible
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Lord Byron
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams
Seneca
No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
William James
