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Today we study one of the
most common Italian tense: the present tense of regular verbs.
- Io ascolto la radio tutti i giorni. (I listen to the radio every day)
- Mario legge il giornale. (Mario reads the newspaper)
- I miei amici partono per Parigi. (My friends leave for Paris)
Ascolto, legge and partono are the present tense of the verbs: ascoltare (to listen), leggere (to read) and partire (to leave).
Italian verbs can be divided into three groups, called coniugazioni. To decide to which “coniugazione” a verb belong to, we need to consider the ending of the
infinitive form.
The
first group, called “prima coniugazione”, includes all the verbs whose infinitive ends with –ARE
(ascoltare, parlare, mangiare,
...).
The
second group, called “seconda
coniugazione”, includes all the verbs whose infinitive ends with
–ERE (leggere, vedere,
vendere, ...).
The
third group, called “terza
coniugazione”, includes all the verbs whose infinitive ends
with –IRE (dormire,
partire, ...).
Any regular verb can be divided in two parts. The first part is called radice and it is the invariable part of the verb, the final part of the verb is called desinenza and it is the one that helps us to understand if a verb belongs to the first, second or third conjugation.
Any regular verb can be divided in two parts. The first part is called radice and it is the invariable part of the verb, the final part of the verb is called desinenza and it is the one that helps us to understand if a verb belongs to the first, second or third conjugation.
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To form the present tense of
Italian regular verbs there is a simple rule to follow: drop the infinitive ending (–ARE, –ERE, –IRE)
and add to “radice”
some appropriate endings for each subject pronoun.
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- Pablo e Juan parlano l’italiano molto bene. (Pablo and Juan speak Italian very well)
- Maria scrive una lettera ai suoi genitori. (Maria writes a letter to her parents)
- Sentiamo tanti rumori da casa nostra. (We hear so many noises from our house)
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