functionsThe paper sets out to illustrate the equivalents of two verb tenses (simple past tense and present perfect tense) in translating from Italian into Romanian with regard to their function within specific verbal paradigms. With this end in view, we compare the u...
Thefuturo anterioreisalso used to make assumptions, just like the simple Italian future tense. In this case, we will use it tointroduce an action that we think probably happened in the past, as in: Sono già le tre. Lucasaràormaitornatoa casa. It is already three o’clock. Luca must ...
Simple tenses are made of one element:mangiavo(I was eating; I ate). Compound tenses are made of two terms: a so-called auxiliary verb, which in Italian areessere(to be) andavere(to have), and the past participle. For example,ho mangiato(I ate) oravevo mangiato(I had eaten). Just...
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The present tense, familiar imperative (command) tense, and future tenses of prendere have a regular conjugation, and are used frequently in daily conversation. Prendere is also commonly used in the past tense in order to describe what we “took,”“brought,”“picked up,”“got,” or “cau...
and Italian is, of all the Romance languages, most closely related to Latin. Italian verb tenses correspond very closely to the tense system of the English language. And Italian is also a language with simple phonetics and pronunciation and (unlike English!) boasts fairly regular grammatical rules...
But since Latin is different in structure from Greek, and since in particular it does not have the same number of past tenses as Greek, the syntax of its tenses is not congruent with that of Greek either. And if the names of Greek tenses indicated in some measure, however awkwardly, ...
Now is the time to step up in your Italian studies. As you get ready to surpass the beginner level, you’ll need to practice using more tenses (past, future, conditional) and memorize several ready-to-use intermediate Italian phrases. To help you level up with confidence, we have prepared...
The indicative mood has four simple and four compound tenses. Compound tenses are formed with the auxiliary verbavere‘to have’. The infinitive usually ends in –re, e.g., leggere ‘to read’. The imperative has two forms: informal and formal. ...