sfuggire
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sfudˈd͡ʒi.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: sfug‧gì‧re
Verb
sfuggìre (first-person singular present sfùggo, first-person singular past historic sfuggìi, past participle sfuggìto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to evade, to dodge
- (intransitive) to escape [with a ‘from’] [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive) to slip out [with da ‘from (e.g. one's hands)’] [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to slip out, to be revealed accidentally [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to escape one's notice [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to escape one's mind, to be forgotten [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of sfuggìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Related terms
Further reading
- sfuggire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana