English-Italian translations for fundamental

• fondamentale
  L’energia è il tema fondamentale. Energy is the fundamental issue.
  Si tratta di una riserva fondamentale. This is a fundamental reservation.
  Infine, desidero porre un interrogativo fondamentale. There is a fundamental last question.
• basilare
  Per noi è una questione basilare. This is a fundamental issue for us.
  La libertà contrattuale rappresenta un concetto basilare fondamentale. Contractual freedom is a fundamental principle.
  Non sembra, però, che tale principio basilare si possa applicare in Croazia. This fundamental principle appears not to apply in Croatia.

Definition of fundamental

• A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part
• The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform
• Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation

Examples

• one of the fundamentals of linear algebra
• a fundamental truth;   a fundamental axiom
• A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans

Related words

• fundamentally
• fundamentalist
• fundamentalism
• fundamentals
• fundamentality
• fundamentalistic
• antifundamentalist
• antifundamentalism
• fundamental particle