sommava

Sommava is a form in Italian that serves as the imperfect indicative of the verb sommare, which means to add or compute a sum. As an imperfect form, sommava is used to describe ongoing, repeated, or habitual actions in the past, such as counting numbers over a period or assembling totals in a calculation. The verb sommare itself derives from the noun somma, meaning “sum,” and belongs to the standard family of Italian -are verbs.

In usage, sommava often appears in narrative or descriptive contexts where a past counting or totaling action is being recounted. For example, a teacher or accountant in a historical account might say that a person sommava i numeri per ottenere il totale, i.e., was summing the numbers to reach the total. While contemporary Italian may prefer alternative expressions like aggiungere or sommare in explicit mathematical contexts, sommava remains correct and comprehensible in literary, historical, or formal writing.

See also: somma (sum), sommare (to sum).