scoppiare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skopˈpja.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: scop‧pià‧re
Verb
scoppiàre (first-person singular present scòppio, first-person singular past historic scoppiài, past participle scoppiàto, auxiliary èssere) (intransitive)
- to explode, to burst
- (figurative) to burst out, to break out, to explode (of emotions, of a war, etc.)
- 1976, “A far l'amore comincia tu”, Daniele Pace (lyrics), Franco Bracardi (music), performed by Raffaella Carrà:
- Portalo in fondo ad un cielo blu / Le sue paure di quel momento / Le fai scoppiare soltanto tu / Scoppia, scoppia mi scoppia il cuor
- Take him deep into a blue sky / The fears he feels in that moment / Are caused only by you / It explodes, it explodes, it explo… It explodes, it explodes, my heart explodes
- (figurative) to be overflowing, to be bursting [+ di (object) = with] or [+ per (object) = with]
- (figurative, sports) to give out from exhaustion (e.g. of a marathon runner)
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Further reading
- scoppiare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- scoppiare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Verb
scoppiàre (first-person singular present scòppio or scóppio[1], first-person singular past historic scoppiài, past participle scoppiàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
Conjugation
Further reading
- scoppiare2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
References
- scoppio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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