Meaning
to shear, clip
- to shear wool from sheep or trim the coat of animals
- to cut hair extremely short (often jokingly or excessively)
In a sentence
In primavera i pastori salgono in montagna per tosare le pecore.
In spring, the shepherds go up into the mountains to shear the sheep.
Il parrucchiere gli ha tagliato i capelli cortissimi, sembra che lo abbia tosato.
The hairdresser cut his hair so short, it looks like he gave him a buzz cut.
Abbiamo fatto tosare il cane perché soffriva troppo il caldo estivo.
We had the dog clipped because it was suffering too much from the summer heat.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| tosare | infinitive |
| toso | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| tosi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| tosa | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| tosiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| tosate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| tosano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| tosavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| tosavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| tosava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| tosavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| tosavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| tosavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| tosai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| tosasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| tosò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| tosammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| tosaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| tosarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| toserò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| toserai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| toserà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| toseremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| toserete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| toseranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| tosi | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| tosi | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| tosi | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| tosiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| tosiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| tosino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| tosassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| tosassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| tosasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| tosassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| tosaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| tosassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| toserei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| toseresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| toserebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| toseremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| tosereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| toserebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| tosa | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| tosiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| tosate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| tosando | gerund |
| tosato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Properly used for shearing sheep or clipping animals; colloquial when applied to humans.
- Takes auxiliary 'avere' in compound tenses.