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VERB FORMS
REGULAR AND IRREGULAR

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Click the button to connect to the automatic "Verb Form Generator" from the Universita' di Trieste
verb forms maker

You will be asked to enter the infinitive of the verb and select tense and mood

Below is a chart of equivalences between Italian and English

MOODS SIMPLE TENSES COMPOUND TENSES
INDICATIVO
objective reality		 PRESENTE: I go, I am going

IMPERFETTO: I used to go, I was going

FUTURO: I will go

PASSATO REMOTO:
I went (only in literary texts)

 PASSATO PROSSIMO:
I have gone, I went

TRAPASSATO PROSSIMO: I had gone

FUTURO ANTERIORE: I will have gone

TRAPASSATO REMOTO: I had gone (only in literary texts)
CONGIUNTIVO
subjectivity 1, indefinite		 PRESENTE: I demand that he go

IMPERFETTO: no equivalent

 PASSATO: no equivalent

TRAPASSATO: no equivalent
CONDIZIONALE
it actually indicates the consequence of an hypothesis, not the condition 		PRESENTE: I would go (if) PASSATO: I would have gone
IMPERATIVO
command form		 PRESENTE: go!  
PARTICIPIO 2 PRESENTE: going PASSATO: gone
INFINITO
zero form of the verb		 PRESENTE: to go PASSATO: to have gone

 

1 "Subjectivity. Objectivity. What is the difference?" (William Burroughs)
2 A form of the verb that can function independently as an adjective, and is used as an auxiliary verb to indicate tense, aspect or voice.

 


FARE to do, to make

io faccio
tu fai
lui fa
lei fa
  fa
noi facciamo
voi fate
loro fanno
I do, make
you do
he does
she does
it does
we do
you do
they do

 

 

VERBS whose stems end with - C or G

In order to maintain the "hard sound" ("g" as in "gatto", "c" as in "casa")
it is necessary to insert an "h" before the endings in "tu" and "noi".

Otherwise the outcome, would yield a soft "c" or "g" as in "cappuccino" "gelato."
ASCIUGARE
to dry (both transitive: I dry the laudry, and intransitive: the laudry dries on the clothesline)
io asciug-o
tu asciug-hi
lui asciug-a
lei asciug-a
  asciug-a
noi asciug-hiamo
voi asciug-ate
loro asciug-ano
CERCARE
to seek, to look for
to try
io cerc-o
tu cerc-hi
lui cerc-a
lei cerc-a
  cerc-a
noi cerc-hiamo
voi cerc-ate
loro cerc-ano

See Pronuncia for a complete chart of all the sounds
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BERE
to drink

io bev-o
tu bev-i
lui bev-e
lei bev-e
  bev-e
noi bev-iamo
voi bev-ete
loro bev-ono