inscatolare
Italian
Etymology
From in- + scatola (“box”) + -are.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ins.ka.toˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧sca‧to‧là‧re
Verb
inscatolàre (first-person singular present inscàtolo, first-person singular past historic inscatolài, past participle inscatolàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to box, to pack
- 1976, “I Want To Know”, performed by Adriano Celentano:
- Come fa la gente / A concepire / Di poter vivere / Nelle case d'oggi / Inscatolati come le acciughe
- How do people manage / To conceive / Of being able to live / In today's houses / Packed like anchovies
- (transitive) to can (fruit, etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of inscatolàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)