Learn Italian: how to use reflexive pronouns.
Verbs
Italian Verbs
Italian Future Tense
The Italian language has two future tenses – il Futuro Semplice and il Futuro Composto while English has only one future tense. IL FUTURO SEMPLICE The simple future tense (il Futuro Semplice) in Italian is used to talk about future actions. Stasera telefonero’ alla mia amica. Tonight I’ll […]
Trapassato Prossimo
The trapassato prossimo is a tense that is used to express what you had done. example: By the time you arrived we had already finished = Ora che tu arrivavi noi avevamo già finito. Here’s how you do it: For most verbs you will need to use the imperfect […]
Italian Present Tense
ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS TEMPO PRESENTE – PRESENT TENSE Italian has one present tense – il Tempo Presente that is equivalent to two present tenses in English, present indicative (she lives) and present progressive (I’m writing). The present tense in Italian is formed by adding endings to the verbs. There […]
The Passive Voice
Verbs can be active or passive voice. This means that when the subject of the verb does the action of the verb, we can say the verb is active, alternatively a verb is in the passive voice if the subject has the action of the verb made. The passive […]
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Verbs in Italian Grammar Il verbo può indicare un’azione che passa direttamente su un complemento detto oggetto o diretto come: Mangio il pane; Guardo la campagna, Rompo la noce, in cui l’idea di mangiare, del guardare, del rompere, non si può concepire senza quella dell’oggetto su cui ricadono queste azioni. […]
Modal Verbs
Modal verbs are words used to give additional information about the main verb in a sentence, a verb being a word that expresses existence, action, or occurrence. In Italian the following words are modal verbs: Volere (to want to) – io voglio Potere (to be able to) – io posso Dovere […]
Avere Past Tense
In English, the past tense is a simple tense meaning it is only made up of a single verb. For example: I spoke . In Italian however, the past is a compound tense meaning that it is made up of an auxilary verb and a past partciple. So in Italian […]
Verbs: Mood and Tenses in Italian
A verb is an action word and a variable part of speech that depends on four elements: Subject Tense Mood Conjugations Subject: Refers to the person (first, second, third, singular and plural). Tense: Reflects whether the action is taking place in the past, present or future. For example: “I’m eating the apple” […]
Reflexive Verbs II
Verbs in Italian are called reflexive when the subject is carrying out the action with respect to himself or herself, for example when a man combs his hair. As you might expect, not all verbs can be reflexive: only the ones that the subject can do himself, such as falling […]