Posts Tagged ‘verbs’
Apr
Apr
The magical aspects of Russian verb construction
Last week, I took a moment to discuss verb aspects, in hopes of clearing up those scary words perfective and imperfective. Today I want to share the amazing formula with which Russian verb become perfective or imperfective.
May
May
It’s all in the past: Il passato remoto
It’s been a while since we looked at a verb tense, and there are still a few left to cover. We’ve already covered the workings of il passato prossimo, for things in the recent past. Today, we’re going to cover il passato remoto, the Italian verb tense used to describe things that happened long ago.
May
May
Ongoing action in the past with Italian’s imperfetto
We’ve covered two perfective past tense forms, il passato prossimo and il passato remoto, which means we can now describe a completed action with some finesse. But we still haven’t thought about how to describe an imperfective action — something that was ongoing in the past. Today, we’ll fix that by looking at the imperfetto.
May
May
Do it now, with Italian imperatives!
The verb form used when giving instructions, issuing commands, or otherwise telling someone to do something is called the imperative mood. Today we will look at how to form the imperative mood with Italian verbs.
Jun
Jun
Basic Italian verbs
We’re coving the 10 most important things to know to get by in Italian. First, we looked at Italian greetings, at the common courtesies, and asking questions. Last week, we looked at things you will need, numbers, and directions.
7. Basic action verbs
There is an incredible amount of communication that can be done before…
Jul
Jul
Basic Lithuanian verbs
As I learning about my Lithuanian heritage, I am also learning about the language. So far I have looked at Lithuanian greetings, some common courtesies, how to ask questions, numbers, and directions. This week, let’s learn some basic verbs!…
Oct
Oct
Il condizionale – Italian’s peculiar conditional tense
There is still one verb tense which needs to be understood, but which I have not yet discussed here. And the reason I haven’t discussed it yet was because it’s use was still somewhat unclear to me.
In fact, the most common explanation I’ve found online for the conditional tense in Italian was simply: “don’t…