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{
"forms": [
{
"form": "cavàrsela",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "me la càvo",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavài",
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"historic",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàto",
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
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"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "it-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàrsela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "èssere",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"auxiliary"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàndosela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"gerund"
]
},
{
"form": "cavànte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàto",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "me la càvo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càva",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caviàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvano",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavàvo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàva",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la cavavàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavavàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàvano",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavài",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàsti",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavò",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la cavàmmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàrono",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la caverò",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"future",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la caverài",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverà",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caverémo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la caveréte",
"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverànno",
"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la caverèi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la caverésti",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverèbbe",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverébbe",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caverémmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la caveréste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverèbbero",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverébbero",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "te la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caviàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la caviàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvino",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavàssi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàssi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàsse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la cavàssimo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"plural",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"plural",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàssero",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"plural",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "càvatela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"formal",
"imperative",
"second-person-semantically",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "caviàmocela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàtevela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvino",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"formal",
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person-semantically",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàrtela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàre",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person-semantically",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "caviàmocela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caviàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàtevela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"negative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
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"form": "ve la cavàte",
"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvino",
"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person-semantically",
"third-person"
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},
"expansion": "cavàrsela (pronominal, first-person singular present me la càvo, first-person singular past historic me la cavài, past participle cavàto)",
"name": "it-verb"
}
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"hyphenation": [
"ca‧vàr‧se‧la"
],
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"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
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"english": "It was an ugly encounter, but thank goodness that he got out of it with just a few bruises.",
"text": "È stato un brutto incontro, ma menomale che lui se l'è cavato solo con alcuni contusioni.",
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"english": "It wasn't such a brilliant performance, but he made the best of it.",
"text": "Non era una prestazione brilliante, ma se l'è cavata.",
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"english": "I'm not so good at chess.",
"text": "A scacchi non me la cavo troppo bene.",
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],
"glosses": [
"to be good at"
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"id": "en-cavarsela-it-verb-DWaTV~FQ",
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{
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{
"english": "We should try to manage ourselves.",
"text": "Dobbiamo cercare di cavarsela da soli.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Let's hope I make it.",
"text": "Speriamo che me la cavo.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "It was not the time to unveil a secret of fabrication; I felt myself respond with the words that had often been heard by the elderly in the camp, and that contain their proudest boast: that of being \"good prisoners\", suitable people, that always knows how to manage; - Ich verstehe verschiedene Sachen […] - (I understand various things about it […] )",
"ref": "1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 214:",
"text": "Non era il caso di svelare un segreto di fabbricazione; sentii me stesso rispondere con le parole che avevo spesso udite dai vecchi del campo, e che contengono il loro vanto preferito: di essere « buoni prigionieri », gente addatta, che se la sa sempre cavare; – Ich verstehe verschiedene Sachen[…] – (Me ne intendo di varie cose[…])",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Forgive me for how I speak / My Italian has not fully made its way / I manage a little like this",
"ref": "2013, “Mi Scusi”, in Blixa Bargeld (lyrics), Still Smiling, performed by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld:",
"text": "Mi scusi come parlo / Il mio Italiano non ha fatto molta strada / Me la cavo un po' così",
"type": "quote"
}
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{
"word": "farcela"
},
{
"word": "riuscire"
}
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]
},
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "In the end, I got away with a little damage.",
"text": "Alla fine me la sono cavata con poco danno.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to get away cheap",
"text": "cavarsela a buon mercato",
"type": "example"
}
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"to carry off or get away with or get off"
],
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"carry off",
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],
[
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"get away with"
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[
"get off",
"get off"
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{
"word": "farla franca"
}
],
"tags": [
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kaˈvar.se.la/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-arsela"
}
],
"word": "cavarsela"
}
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"forms": [
{
"form": "cavàrsela",
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"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "me la càvo",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavài",
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"first-person",
"historic",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàto",
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"participle",
"past"
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "it-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
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"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàrsela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "èssere",
"source": "conjugation",
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"auxiliary"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàndosela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"gerund"
]
},
{
"form": "cavànte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàto",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "me la càvo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càva",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caviàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvano",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavàvo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàva",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la cavavàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavavàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàvano",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavài",
"source": "conjugation",
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"first-person",
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàsti",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavò",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la cavàmmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàrono",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la caverò",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"future",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la caverài",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverà",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caverémo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la caveréte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverànno",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la caverèi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la caverésti",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverèbbe",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverébbe",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caverémmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la caveréste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverèbbero",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la caverébbero",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "te la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caviàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la caviàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvino",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "me la cavàssi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàssi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàsse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la cavàssimo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"plural",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàste",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"plural",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "se la cavàssero",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"plural",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "càvatela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"formal",
"imperative",
"second-person-semantically",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "caviàmocela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàtevela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvino",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"formal",
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person-semantically",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàrtela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "te la cavàre",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"formal",
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person-semantically",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "caviàmocela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ce la caviàmo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cavàtevela",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ve la cavàte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "se la càvino",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"formal",
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person-semantically",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "à"
},
"expansion": "cavàrsela (pronominal, first-person singular present me la càvo, first-person singular past historic me la cavài, past participle cavàto)",
"name": "it-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ca‧vàr‧se‧la"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "à"
},
"name": "it-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "It was an ugly encounter, but thank goodness that he got out of it with just a few bruises.",
"text": "È stato un brutto incontro, ma menomale che lui se l'è cavato solo con alcuni contusioni.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to get out (of trouble, danger, etc.)"
],
"links": [
[
"get out",
"get out"
]
],
"tags": [
"pronominal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "It wasn't such a brilliant performance, but he made the best of it.",
"text": "Non era una prestazione brilliante, ma se l'è cavata.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to make the best of something"
],
"links": [
[
"make the best of",
"make the best of"
]
],
"tags": [
"pronominal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I'm not so good at chess.",
"text": "A scacchi non me la cavo troppo bene.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be good at"
],
"tags": [
"pronominal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with quotations",
"Italian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "We should try to manage ourselves.",
"text": "Dobbiamo cercare di cavarsela da soli.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Let's hope I make it.",
"text": "Speriamo che me la cavo.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "It was not the time to unveil a secret of fabrication; I felt myself respond with the words that had often been heard by the elderly in the camp, and that contain their proudest boast: that of being \"good prisoners\", suitable people, that always knows how to manage; - Ich verstehe verschiedene Sachen […] - (I understand various things about it […] )",
"ref": "1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 214:",
"text": "Non era il caso di svelare un segreto di fabbricazione; sentii me stesso rispondere con le parole che avevo spesso udite dai vecchi del campo, e che contengono il loro vanto preferito: di essere « buoni prigionieri », gente addatta, che se la sa sempre cavare; – Ich verstehe verschiedene Sachen[…] – (Me ne intendo di varie cose[…])",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Forgive me for how I speak / My Italian has not fully made its way / I manage a little like this",
"ref": "2013, “Mi Scusi”, in Blixa Bargeld (lyrics), Still Smiling, performed by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld:",
"text": "Mi scusi come parlo / Il mio Italiano non ha fatto molta strada / Me la cavo un po' così",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to manage (to do something)"
],
"links": [
[
"manage",
"manage"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "farcela"
},
{
"word": "riuscire"
}
],
"tags": [
"pronominal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "In the end, I got away with a little damage.",
"text": "Alla fine me la sono cavata con poco danno.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to get away cheap",
"text": "cavarsela a buon mercato",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to carry off or get away with or get off"
],
"links": [
[
"carry off",
"carry off"
],
[
"get away with",
"get away with"
],
[
"get off",
"get off"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "farla franca"
}
],
"tags": [
"pronominal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kaˈvar.se.la/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-arsela"
}
],
"word": "cavarsela"
}
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