The Italian word of the week: ” cavarsela”

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Cavarsela is an Italian  pronominal verb. Pronominal verbs are verbs with one or two pronouns that change a little the original meaning of the  verb. Italians use  very often this verbs in the spoken language.Cavarsela means get away with,  for example:

L’esame era difficile ma me la sono cavata bene
Non lavora mai, ma se la cava sempre

The conjugation in the present tense is the following:

io me la cavo
tu te la cavi
lui/lei se la cava
noi ce la caviamo
voi ve la cavate
loro se la cavano

Do you know other pronominal verbs and their meaning?

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One Response to “The Italian word of the week: ” cavarsela””

  1. David Mendriski Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    I LOVE your site! I have been studying Italian for 2 years. I would love any advice you might have for training my listening comprehension. When I rent Italian movies, either they are in southern dialect, like Ciao, professore!, or just too fast. I am getting fairly good at reading, although the pronominal verbs still fanno me impazzire.

    Grazie por questo aiuto.

    Dave

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