Important Italian Verbs
Your most important verbs are, shocker, the most irregular. The ability “to be” “to go” “to do” and “to have” and the uses do not, unfortunately correspond exactly to those in English.
The infinitive “to go” andare is used almost exactly the same as English, for beginners you can think of it as exactly the same.
| andare | singular | plural |
| vado | andiamo | |
| vai | andate | |
| va | vanno |
In Tuscany many times “vo” is used rather than “vado”
The infinitive “to do” is also “to make” and there are quite a few instances where in English you “take” a thing and in Italian you “do or make” a thing.
| fare | singular | plural |
| faccio | facciamo | |
| fai | fate | |
| fa | fanno |
In Tuscany many times “fo is used rather than “faccio.”
The infinitive “to have” avere is used fairly similar to the way it is used in English with a number of important exceptions that will be covered in Expressions.
| avere | singular | plural |
| ho | abbiamo | |
| hai | avete | |
| ha | hanno |
There are two forms of “to be” “essere”; which is used to identify Nationality, personal characteristics, identifying objects, expressing possesion and telling time; and “stare” which shows temporary states, location and health. Both are used in other tenses as you progress in learning, but the easiest way to remember the difference is essere does not change and stare does–one is always American, tall, intelligent, etc. but one is not always at the train station or sick.
| essere | singular | plural |
| sono | siamo | |
| sei | siete | |
| e | sono |
| stare | singular | plural |
| sto | stiamo | |
| stai | state | |
| sta | stanno |
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