taggare

Taggare is an Italian verb borrowed from the English "tag" that means to tag, label, or identify content or people in digital environments. It is commonly used to assign descriptive tags to posts, photos, or documents and to identify or notify users in online interactions. The infinitive taggare is a regular -are verb, and typical present forms are io taggo, tu tagghi, lui/lei tagga, noi tagghiamo, voi taggate, loro taggano. The past participle is taggato and the gerund is taggando.

In everyday online use, taggare serves two main functions. First, tagging people or accounts (for example, tagging a friend in a photo) to notify them or to associate the content with that person. Second, tagging content with topics or keywords to improve searchability and organization. Hashtags, formed with a leading #, are a related but distinct mechanism used to group content around a theme and aid discovery across platforms.

Beyond social media, tagging is widely used in content management, digital libraries, and data organization to label items with metadata. In these contexts, tags are chosen to reflect topics, attributes, or relationships, facilitating retrieval and categorization. The term taggare is often considered an anglicism, with Italian alternatives such as etichettare or contrazioni like tag, etichetta, and parola chiave depending on the context.

See also: hashtag, mentions, metadata, tagging in information management.