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Italian verbs have three additional forms, known as nominal forms, because they can be used as nouns or adjectives, rather than as verbs. the past participle (participio passato) has been discussed above; the present participle (participio presente) is used as an adjective or a noun describing someone who is busy doing something.
passato prossimo: ho fatto: I have done I did Recent pluperfect: trapassato prossimo: avevo fatto: I had done [verbs 3] Remote pluperfect: trapassato remoto: ebbi fatto: I had done [verbs 3] Future perfect: futuro anteriore: avrò fatto: I will have done I may have done Present continuous: presente progressivo: sto facendo: I am doing [verbs 1 ...
"Last year I visited Venice" can be rendered both as "l'anno scorso visitai Venezia" (passato remoto, literary and rather awkward to the average speaker) and "l'anno scorso ho visitato Venezia" (the more naturally sounding passato prossimo). So if in English you would use a past, in Italian your choice should be passato prossimo.
Analogous forms are found in some other languages, and they may also be described as present perfect; they often have other names such as the German Perfekt, the French passé composé and the Italian passato prossimo. They may also have different ranges of usage: in all three of the languages just mentioned, the forms in question serve as a ...
In colloquial usage, the use of the passato remoto becomes more prevalent going from the North to the South of Italy. While Northern Italians and Sardinians use passato prossimo in any perfective situation, Southern Italians will use passato remoto even for recent events. Typical conjugations:
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.
balestra noun f. (plural balestre), lit. "crossbow" A footwork preparation, consisting of a jump or hop forwards with an immediate lunge. This is the definition found in the French national fencing glossary, though it is common in the English world for balestra to refer to only a jump.
Past Perfect (Italian: Passato prossimo) is a 2003 Italian comedy film directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film ...