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Italian verbs have a high degree of inflection, the majority of which follows one of three common patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns of conjugation) are distinguished by the endings of the infinitive form of the verb: 1st ...
Based on the ending of their infiniti presenti (-are, -ere, or -ire), all Italian verbs can be assigned to three distinct conjugation patterns. Exceptions are found: fare, 'to do/make' (from Latin FACĔRE) "Conjugation of the verb fare". (Lingua-Italiana.IT)., and dire, 'to say' (from Latin DICĔRE) "Conjugation of the verb dire".
A verb that does not follow all of the standard conjugation patterns of the language is said to be an irregular verb. The system of all conjugated variants of a particular verb or class of verbs is called a verb paradigm; this may be presented in the form of a conjugation table.
The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.
Verbs do not conjugate by person: yo, tu, il, nu, vu, li sava (I, you, he, we, you, they know). Mondial has a single irregular verb, the verb ser (to be): Infinitive: ser (to be) Present participle: sente (being) Past participle: sete (been) Present: e (is/am/are) Imperfect: evi (was) Simple future: sera (will be) Present conditional: seria ...
Ante Natal, tu habera finite tu cursos. 'By Christmas you will have finished your courses.' The past imperfect, using vadeva 'were going' plus the infinitive; Plus tarde illa vadeva scriber un romance premiate. 'Later she would write a prize-winning novel.' The passive-voice past perfect, using habeva essite 'had been' plus the past participle
The form dumneata (originating from domnia ta – thy lordship) is less distant than dumneavoastră and somewhat midway between tu and dumneavoastră. The verb is conjugated, as for tu, in the second person singular form. Older people towards younger people and peers favor dumneata. Its use is gradually declining.
In Italian, (Signor) Vincenzo Rossi can be addressed with the tu (familiar) form or the Lei (formal) one, but complete addresses range from Tu, Vincenzo (peer to peer or family) and Tu, Rossi (teacher to high-school student, as stated above) to Lei, signor Vincenzo (live-in servant to master or master's son) and Lei, Rossi (senior staff member ...