svuota

Svuota is an Italian verb form that appears in two common uses. Most often, it is the third-person singular present indicative of the verb svuotare, meaning to empty or to remove contents from something. It can also function as the second-person singular present imperative, svuota, used to give a direct command meaning “empty (it)!” when addressing someone informally with tu.

The infinitive svuotare is formed from the adjective vuoto (empty) with the standard infinitive suffix -are. The verb denotes removing all contents from a container, space, or area, as well as draining liquids or otherwise making something empty. Svuotare can be used both literally (to empty a bottle, a box, a drawer) and figuratively (to empty one’s pockets, to clear a space, or to empty one’s mind in a mental or emotional sense).

Common usages include phrases such as svuota la bottiglia (empty the bottle) or svuotare la dispensa (to clear out the pantry). In everyday speech, svuota can be combined with various direct objects to describe practical clearing actions, while figurative expressions like svuotare la mente or svuotare il contenuto di una discussione appear in more literary or colloquial contexts.

Related terms include svuotamento (the act of emptying) and the related verb vuotare, which is sometimes used interchangeably in certain regional varieties to mean to empty or to drain. See also riempire, the antonym meaning to fill.

Overall, svuota occupies a central role in describing the act of removing contents, with clear physical and occasional figurative applications in Italian.