Significado
to dig
- to excavate
- to bore
- to hollow out

En una frase
Domani scaviamo una buca in giardino.
Tomorrow we'll dig a hole in the garden.
Hai scavato troppo vicino al muro?
Did you dig too close to the wall?
Non scavare quel pezzo di legno.
Don't hollow out that piece of wood.
Formas de la palabra (48)
| Palabra | Formas de la palabra |
|---|---|
| scavare | infinitive |
| scaviamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| scavo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| scavate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scavi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scavano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scava | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scavavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| scavavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| scavavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| scavavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| scavavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| scavava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| scavammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| scavai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| scavaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| scavasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| scavarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| scavò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| scaveremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| scaverò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| scaverete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| scaverai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| scaveranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| scaverà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| scaviamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| scavi | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| scaviate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scavi | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scavino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scavi | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scavassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| scavassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| scavaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| scavassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| scavassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| scavasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| scaveremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| scaverei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| scavereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| scaveresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| scaverebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| scaverebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| scaviamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| scavate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| scava | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| scavando | gerund |
| scavato | past · participle |
Notas de uso
- Use scavare for physical digging. For drilling with a machine, perforare or trivellare is often more precise.
- With avere in compound tenses: ho scavato una buca. It can also be transitive in figurative uses.
- Common with objects like buca, fossa, tunnel, pozzo. Learners often overuse it where cercare or approfondire is meant figuratively.