Meaning
to warm up
- to warm, to heat up
- to fire up, to excite
- to warm up (muscles, engine)
In a sentence
Puoi scaldare la pasta per cena?
Can you warm up the pasta for dinner?
La sua musica ha scaldato subito il pubblico.
His music fired up the crowd right away.
Con questo sole, la macchina si scalda troppo.
With this sun, the car gets too hot.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| scaldare | infinitive |
| scaldiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| scaldo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| scaldate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scaldi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scaldano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scalda | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scaldavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| scaldavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| scaldavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| scaldavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| scaldavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| scaldava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| scaldammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| scaldai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| scaldaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| scaldasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| scaldarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| scaldò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| scalderemo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| scalderò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| scalderete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| scalderai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| scalderanno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| scalderà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| scaldiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| scaldi | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| scaldiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scaldi | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scaldino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scaldi | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scaldassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| scaldassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| scaldaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| scaldassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| scaldassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| scaldasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| scalderemmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| scalderei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| scaldereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scalderesti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scalderebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scalderebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scaldiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| scaldate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| scalda | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| scaldando | gerund |
| scaldato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Use scaldare for warming food, rooms, hands, or emotions. Riscaldare is often more neutral or technical, especially for machines and formal contexts.
- As a transitive verb it takes avere: ho scaldato il latte. Reflexive scaldarsi means to warm oneself or to get heated emotionally.
- Non scaldarti! means 'don’t get worked up,' not literally 'don’t warm yourself.' Very common in spoken Italian.