Meaning
spade
- a long-handled hand tool with a flat blade used for digging or turning soil
In a sentence
Mio nonno prende la vanga ogni mattina per dissodare il terreno.
My grandfather takes the spade every morning to till the soil.
Hai riposto la vanga nel capanno degli attrezzi dopo aver finito?
Did you put the spade back in the tool shed after finishing?
Non possiamo piantare gli alberi senza una vanga abbastanza robusta.
We cannot plant the trees without a sufficiently sturdy spade.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| vanga | feminine · singular |
| vanghe | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- Takes -ghe in the plural to preserve the hard /g/ sound: 'vanghe'.
- Unlike a shovel ('pala'), a spade has a flatter blade suited to slicing through roots and compacted earth.