Meaning
to transport, carry, convey, take
- to move, transfer
- to drive, carry
In a sentence
Puoi trasportare questa scatola fino alla macchina?
Can you carry this box to the car?
Ieri abbiamo trasportato i mobili nella casa nuova.
Yesterday we moved the furniture into the new house.
Non posso trasportare tutto da solo oggi.
I can't carry everything by myself today.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| trasportare | infinitive |
| trasportiamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| trasporto | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| trasportate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| trasporti | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| trasportano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| trasporta | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| trasportavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| trasportavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| trasportavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| trasportavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| trasportavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| trasportava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| trasportammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| trasportai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| trasportaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| trasportasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| trasportarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| trasportò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| trasporteremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| trasporterò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| trasporterete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| trasporterai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| trasporteranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| trasporterà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| trasportiamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| trasporti | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| trasportiate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| trasporti | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| trasportino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| trasporti | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| trasportassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| trasportassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| trasportaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| trasportassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| trasportassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| trasportasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| trasporteremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| trasporterei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| trasportereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| trasporteresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| trasporterebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| trasporterebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| trasportiamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| trasportate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| trasporta | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| trasportando | gerund |
| trasportato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Use trasportare for moving people or things, especially physically or logistically; portare is broader and more common for simply taking something somewhere.
- For vehicles, Italians often prefer guidare or portare in macchina; trasportare sounds more like carrying passengers or cargo than personally driving.
- It usually takes avere in compound tenses: ho trasportato i mobili. Passive is common in logistics: merci trasportate via treno.