Italians often use adjectives when describing something that is beyond its normal size swell (female: swell,plural: swell / swell), which is the past participle of the verb Expansion (inflatable).
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First and foremost, you can use it to describe something that is filled with air, in which case we would usually use an adjective swollen in English. For example, an inflated balloon will an inflated balloon However inflated tires will inflated tires.
Is the balloon inflated? Okay, let’s play!
Is the ball inflated? Okay, let’s play!
If you eat a particularly heavy meal and find yourself feeling full, either from air or food, swell is the perfect word to describe this feeling.In this context, you will often hear the expression Feeling bloated (feeling bloated).
Oh my gosh, how bloated I feel. I ate too much!
Oh my gosh, I feel so bloated. I ate too much!
swell Also used to describe the body part in which swell or fluffyFor example swollen eyes (puffy eyes) or swollen ankles (swollen ankles).
Your feet are swollen. Does it hurt?
Your feet are swollen. Does it hurt?
A less common expression is Swelling and… (full… / overcome…), used to describe strong emotional states.It often occurs with a noun, e.g. pride (pride), Gioia (joy), anger (anger), assumed (arrogant), ila (anger) or pain (pain) to name a few.
Luigi’s heart was filled with joy because he had finally achieved his dream.
Luigi’s heart was filled with joy because he had achieved his dream.
Some other things to consider swell including flooded rivers (The river rises), complete wallet (Bulky wallet), expansion bag (swollen bag), fluffy hair (fluffy hair) even pregnant women!
Common idioms in Italian characterized by swell yes freelyliterally meaning “start sailing”. In English, the equivalent idiomatic expression is “With ease”.
The work is going well.
The work is going well.
But on the contrary swell?You can create this adjective simply by adding a s- To the beginning of a word: deflated.As you can imagine, this means deflated, flator No swelling.
The balloon is completely deflated, so let’s throw it away.
The balloon is completely deflated, so let’s throw it away.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
