Italian Verb Conjugation Forms
Infinito
Infinitive - Also known as the "dictionary form", the infinitive is the most basic of form of a verb. By itself, it says nothing about how many people are performing the verb's action or when.
Participio Presente
Present Participle - The present participle is a tense which in Italian does not act as a verb, becoming either a noun or an adjective. It indicates who carries out the action expressed by the verb, either temporarily or continuously.
Gerundio
Gerund - The form of the verb as an adverb, used to indicate that one action caused or happened at the same time as another.
Participio Passato
Past Participle - Used an adjective participle, past participles are used to describe the nature or states of things.
Presente
Present - This tense is used to express something that is happening currently, in the near future, or a general truth.
Imperfetto
Imperfect - Used to describe events taking place in the past without regards to when the event began or ended, the imperfect tense describes actions that were happening, used to happen, or happened regularly in the past and on going.
Futuro
Future - This is the verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected to in the future.
Passato Remoto
Distant Past - Expressing actions which took place in the past, the remote past form indicates that an action taken once in the past was completed at some point in the past.
Congiuntivo Presente
Subjunctive - The most difficult tense for Anglophones to learn, the subjective expresses wishes, commands (in subordinate clauses), emotion, possibility, judgement, necessity, and statements that are contrary to fact at present.
Congiuntivo Imperfetto
Past Subjunctive - This tense is used in the similar context of the regular subjunctive, but when the dependent clause is in the past tense.
Condizionale
Conditional - The is the verb form used in conditional sentences to refer to a hypothetical state of affairs, or an uncertain event that is contingent on another set of circumstances.
Imperativo
Imperative (command) - This verb form is used when making commands.
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