bombardavamo

Bombardavamo is the first-person plural imperfect indicative form of the Italian verb bombardare. It translates to “we were bombarding” or “we used to bombard” and is used to describe ongoing or repeated actions in the past, often as background in a narrative.

Morphology and usage: Bombardare is a regular -are verb. In the imperfect tense the ending for noi is -avamo, giving bombardavamo. Other forms include io bombardavo, tu bombardavi, lui/lei bombardava, voi bombardavate, loro bombardavano. Bombardare is transitive and typically takes a direct object or a target phrase (for example, bombardavamo la città). The imperfect expresses actions that were ongoing, habitual, or set the scene in the past, and it can appear in both narrative contexts and reported speech.

Etymology and scope: The verb bombardare is linked to historical terms for siege weapons, such as bombard(a), and traces its etymology through Romance languages to medieval forms associated with bombardment. In modern Italian it denotes artillery or missile bombardment and can also be used metaphorically to describe overwhelming someone with information, questions, or stimuli.

Usage context: In encyclopedic or historical writing, bombardavamo would appear when recounting past military operations or campaigns from a narrative perspective. It is one data point in the larger conjugation of bombardare and serves to place actions in a continuous past frame rather than a single instantaneous event. See also bombardare, bombardamento.