Meaning
to levitate
- To rise or cause to rise and hover in the air, seemingly defying gravity.
In a sentence
Durante lo spettacolo il mago sembrava davvero levitare da terra.
During the show, the magician truly seemed to levitate off the ground.
Il monaco sosteneva di poter levitare durante la meditazione profonda.
The monk claimed he could levitate during deep meditation.
Nel film di fantascienza gli oggetti levitavano senza gravità.
In the science fiction movie, objects were levitating without gravity.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| levitare | infinitive |
| levito | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| leviti | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| levita | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| levitiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| levitate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| levitano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| levitavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| levitavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| levitava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| levitavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| levitavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| levitavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| levitai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| levitasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| levitò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| levitammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| levitaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| levitarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| leviterò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| leviterai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| leviterà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| leviteremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| leviterete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| leviteranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| leviti | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| leviti | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| leviti | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| levitiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| levitiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| levitino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| levitassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| levitassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| levitasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| levitassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| levitaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| levitassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| leviterei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| leviteresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| leviterebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| leviteremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| levitereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| leviterebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| levita | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| levitiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| levitate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| levitando | gerund |
| levitato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Do not confuse with 'lievitare' (to rise, leaven, referring to dough or expanding prices).
- Conjugated with 'avere' in compound tenses.