traballare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From tra- + ballare; cognate with Piedmontese trabalé.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
traballàre (first-person singular present trabàllo, first-person singular past historic traballài, past participle traballàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)
- to stagger
- to tremble
- (figurative, by extension) to be in a precarious state; to be shaky
- lo stato traballa ― the government is shaky
- (chess, by extension) to be hanging
- dopo questa tattica, il cavallo del bianco traballa
- after this tactic, white's knight hangs
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of traballàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)