Italian conjugation

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:

Additionally, Italian has a number of irregular and semi-irregular verbs, including "to be", "to have", "to go", "to stay, to stand", "to give", "to do, to make", and many others.

The suffixes that form the infinitive are always stressed, except for -ere, which is stressed in some verbs and unstressed in others (e.g. vedere /veˈdeːre/ "to see" vs prendere /ˈprɛndere/ "to take"). A few verbs have a misleading, retracted infinitive, but use their unretracted stem in most conjugations. comes from Latin , which can be seen in many of its forms. Similarly, ("to say") comes from , ("to drink") comes from and ("to put") comes from .

The present is used for:

/aˈmaːre/

/ˈkreːdere/

/dorˈmiːre/

/fiˈniːre/

/ˈɛssere/

/aˈveːre/

/anˈdaːre/

/ˈstaːre/

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