Italian Grammar Made Easy

The "imperfetto" describes ongoing actions, habits, or background situations in the past. Certain Italian time expressions and context clues often will trigger this type of Italian past tense.

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While Italian has many irregular verbs, only a small number are truly irregular in the imperfect tense. In this episode, we focus on the few verbs whose root changes, making them irregular in this specific tense.

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In Italian, word endings usually signal gender ("-o" for masculine, "-a" for feminine), but nouns ending in "-e" don’t give us a clear clue, so we need to memorize the specific gender of words ending in "-e".

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Certain time expressions point to completed actions in the past and naturally call for the present perfect. These expressions usually refer to specific, finished past moments.

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L’Italia racchiude storia millenaria, capolavori artistici e paesaggi naturali unici. Dal Colosseo alla Torre di Pisa, queste cinque meraviglie di cui parliamo oggi mostrano la straordinaria varietà del paese.

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