sfuggire

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Italian

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Etymology

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From s- +‎ fuggire.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sfudˈd͡ʒi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: sfug‧gì‧re

Verb

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sfuggìre (first-person singular present sfùggo, first-person singular past historic sfuggìi, past participle sfuggìto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to evade, to dodge
  2. (intransitive) to escape [with a ‘from’] [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive) to slip out [with da ‘from (e.g. one's hands)’] [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive, figurative) to slip out, to be revealed accidentally [auxiliary essere]
  5. (intransitive, figurative) to escape one's notice [auxiliary essere]
  6. (intransitive, figurative) to escape one's mind, to be forgotten [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • sfuggire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana