Meaning
to hurl, fling, throw
- to hurl, to fling, to throw
- to chip (stone) into flakes
- to descale (fish)
In a sentence
In preda alla rabbia, ha scagliato il libro contro la porta.
In a fit of rage, he hurled the book against the door.
Puoi scagliare questo pesce prima di cucinarlo?
Can you descale this fish before cooking it?
Non so scagliare bene le pietre ancora.
I still don't know how to chip stones well.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| scagliare | infinitive |
| scagliamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| scaglio | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| scagliate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scagli | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scagliano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scaglia | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scagliavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| scagliavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| scagliavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| scagliavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| scagliavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| scagliava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| scagliammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| scagliai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| scagliaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| scagliasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| scagliarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| scagliò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| scaglieremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| scaglierò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| scaglierete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| scaglierai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| scaglieranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| scaglierà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| scagliamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| scagli | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| scagliate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scagli | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scaglino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scagli | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scagliassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| scagliassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| scagliaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| scagliassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| scagliassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| scagliasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| scaglieremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| scaglierei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| scagliereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scaglieresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scaglierebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scaglierebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scagliamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| scagliate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| scaglia | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| scagliando | gerund |
| scagliato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- In modern Italian, scagliare is far more common as “to hurl” or in figurative attacks than in the stone- or fish-related senses.
- For fish, everyday Italian usually prefers squamare or desquamare; scagliare sounds technical or regional in this sense.
- As a transitive verb, it takes avere in compound tenses: ha scagliato. Reflexive scagliarsi takes essere: si è scagliato contro.