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  2. Italian conjugation - Wikipedia

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    The list does not include essere, avere, andare, stare, dare and fare, that have already been conjugated throughout the article. Abbreviations • pr. = present;

  3. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    In Italian, compound tenses expressing perfect aspect are formed with either auxiliary verb avere ('to have') "Conjugation of the verb avere". (Lingua-Italiana.IT). for transitive verbs and some intransitive verbs and with essere ('to be') "Conjugation of the verb essere".

  4. Subjunctive mood - Wikipedia

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    The perfect and pluperfect subjunctives are formed much like the indicative perfect and pluperfect, except the auxiliary (either avere or essere) verb takes the present and imperfect subjunctive respectively. They are used in subordinate clauses which require the subjunctive, where the sense of the verb requires use of the perfect or pluperfect.

  5. Romance verbs - Wikipedia

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    essere istere – – – – – – Pluperfect: fuissem stetissem fossi stessi fusse – fuese estuviese fosse estivesse – – fos estigués fussi stassi fiss fusesem Infinitive: esse stāre essere stare être – ser estar ser estar essere istare ser, ésser estar siri stari esser fire, a fi Supine – statum – stato – été sido ...

  6. Imperative mood - Wikipedia

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    Imperative mood is often expressed using special conjugated verb forms. Like other finite verb forms, imperatives often inflect for person and number.Second-person imperatives (used for ordering or requesting performance directly from the person being addressed) are most common, but some languages also have imperative forms for the first and third persons (alternatively called cohortative and ...

  7. Perfect (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Italian uses avere ("have") and essere ("be") as auxiliaries, distributed in much the same way as avoir and être in French. The participle agrees with the subject when essere is used, and with a preceding pronoun direct object when avere is used. The present perfect is often used also for completed events where English would use the simple past.

  8. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  9. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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    Modal verbs in Italian are the only group of verbs allowed to follow this particular behavior. When they do not accompany other verbs, they all use avere ("to have") as a helping verb for forming the perfect. For example, the helping verb for the perfect of potere ("can") is avere ("have"), as in ho potuto (lit.