tagliamo

Tagliamo is the first-person plural present indicative form of the Italian verb tagliare, meaning “we cut” or “we slice.” It is used with an understood subject noi and can appear without an explicit pronoun in everyday speech.

As a present-tense, regular -are verb, tagliare follows the standard endings for this class: io taglio, tu tagli, lui/lei taglia, noi tagliamo, voi tagliate, loro tagliano. The form tagliamo is therefore the noi form of present tense. It can also appear in inclusive imperatives in informal speech, where speakers propose an action together, as in “Tagliamo qui” meaning “Let’s cut here.” When attaching objects or pronouns, forms such as tagliamolo (let’s cut it) are used.

Common uses span a range of contexts. In cooking, it refers to slicing ingredients; in tailoring or carpentry, to cutting fabric or wood; in film and writing, to editing or trimming footage and text. Metaphorically, tagliare is used to describe reductions or reductions in cost, time, or scope, for example “tagliare i costi” (to cut costs) or “tagliare le ore di lavoro” (to trim working hours).

Etymology links tagliare to the broader Italian vocabulary of cutting and shaping, with noun forms such as taglio (cut, incision). Tagliamo thus functions as a common, versatile verb form essential to everyday Italian syntax and communication.