cavare

See also: cavaré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cavāre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈva.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ca‧và‧re

Verb

cavàre (first-person singular present càvo, first-person singular past historic cavài, past participle cavàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to take out, pull out, or extract forcefully
    cavare un dente ― pull out a tooth
  2. (transitive) to take off (an article of clothing)
  3. (transitive) (with da) to get or obtain (from)
    Quanto vino puoi cavare dal vigneto?
    How much wine can you get from the vineyard?
  4. (transitive) to profit
  5. (transitive) to deduce or come to a conclusion
    Cava tu le conclusioni dal tuo ragionamento!
    You draw the conclusions from your reasoning!
  6. (transitive, informal) to deduct or subtract
    Synonyms: detrarre, sottrarre

Conjugation
    Conjugation of cavàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive cavàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund cavàndo
present participle cavànte past participle cavàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present càvo càvi càva caviàmo cavàte càvano
imperfect cavàvo cavàvi cavàva cavavàmo cavavàte cavàvano
past historic cavài cavàsti cavò cavàmmo cavàste cavàrono
future caverò caverài caverà caverémo caveréte caverànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present caverèi caverésti caverèbbe, caverébbe caverémmo caveréste caverèbbero, caverébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present càvi càvi càvi caviàmo caviàte càvino
imperfect cavàssi cavàssi cavàsse cavàssimo cavàste cavàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
càva càvi caviàmo cavàte càvino
negative imperative non cavàre non càvi non caviàmo non cavàte non càvino

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cavāre

  1. inflection of cavō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

cavare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of cavar
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