Italian verbs: tenses and moods

Italian Verb Tenses and Moods

Do Italian verb tenses and moods give you trouble? Never sure whether to use the indicative or subjunctive? Does the conditional seem too difficult to conjugate? Does the past participle have too many irregularities? Ok, ok, enough! Don’t worry… We have the cure for all your problems!

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Italian Verbal System for Beginners (A1/A2)

ESSERE VS AVERE

Fundamental Italian auxiliaries. Correct choice explained. Essential basic uses.

PRESENT INDICATIVE FORMATION

Regular irregular conjugations. Present tense endings. Complete basic morphology.

IMPERFECT INDICATIVE FORMATION

Durative past conjugations. Regular characteristic endings. Systematic formation explained.

PRESENT TENSE USE

Current habitual actions. Near future historical. Various communicative functions.

IMPERFECT TENSE USE

Past descriptions habits. Simultaneous durative actions. Appropriate narrative contexts.

VERBAL INFINITIVE

Basic verb form. Present past uses. Nominal mood explained.

Italian Verbal System for Intermediate (B1/B2)

IMPERFECT VS PAST

Durative vs completed actions. Background vs foreground. Correct tense choice.

PAST PERFECT

Compound auxiliary formation. Regular irregular participles. Past participle agreement.

ALL PAST TENSES

Complete temporal system. Remote pluperfect anterior. Past tenses overview.

REMOTE PAST

Historical distant actions. Frequent irregular conjugations. Regional literary use.

FUTURE TENSE ITALIAN

Simple anterior formation. Predictions hypotheses doubts. Temporal modal uses.

CONDITIONAL ITALIAN

Wishes hypotheses politeness. Present past formation. Complete conditional moods.

GERUND ITALIAN

Present past construction. Simultaneity cause manner. Stare + progressive gerund.

Italian Verbal System for Advanced (C1/C2)

SUBJUNCTIVE PRESENT PAST

Mood subjectivity doubt. Simple tenses formation. Basic subjunctive morphology.

SUBJUNCTIVE IMPERFECT PLUPERFECT

Past subjunctive tenses. Advanced temporal agreement. Complete complex morphology.

USING SUBJUNCTIVE

Opinions doubts emotions. Subordinate requiring subjunctive. Mandatory contexts identified.

NOT USING SUBJUNCTIVE

Certainties objective facts. Indicative vs subjunctive. Hypercorrection errors avoided.

CONSECUTIO TEMPORUM

Complex tense agreement. Anteriority contemporaneity posteriority. Integrated temporal system.

PLUPERFECT

Near remote anterior. Past of the past. Complex temporal relations.

IMPERATIVE

Orders advice instructions. Formal informal negative. Pronoun imperative position.

SUBJUNCTIVE ERRORS

Frequent mistakes corrected. Hypercorrections doubts resolved. Subjunctive mastery guaranteed.

COMPLETE VERBAL SYSTEM

Moods tenses overview. Complete integrated system. Total verbal mastery.