carro armato
tank
The Italian word for tank is 'carro armato'. It is used to describe a large, heavily armored military vehicle with tracks and a turret-mounted gun. The term is often used in the context of warfare and military strategy.
Example sentences using: carro armato
Il carro armato si avvicina lentamente alla città.
The tank is slowly approaching the city.
This sentence describes the action of a tank (carro armato), specifically it moving slowly towards a city. In Italian, 'si avvicina' means 'is approaching', 'lentamente' means 'slowly', and 'alla città' means 'to the city'.
Il rumore del carro armato ha svegliato il bambino.
The noise of the tank woke up the child.
This sentence is expressing that the sound or noise (il rumore) of the tank (carro armato) woke up a child (ha svegliato il bambino). This sentence is an example of the causative construction in Italian, where an external factor (the noise of the tank) causes an action (the child waking up).
Ho visto un carro armato nel museo.
I saw a tank in the museum.
This sentence states that the speaker saw a tank (un carro armato) in a museum (nel museo). 'Ho visto' is the perfect tense of 'vedere' (to see), and is used here to indicate a past event that has relevance or connection to the present. The word 'nel' is a contraction of the preposition 'in' and the article 'il', and is used here to indicate the location of the tank.