A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian by Maiden Martin; Robustelli Cecilia;

Author:Maiden, Martin; Robustelli, Cecilia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 564551
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

14.6

The desinences of the present tense

The present tense is characterized by the following desinences attached to the root of the verb.5

TABLE 14.B

The conjugation of the present tense of andare, fare, avere, dare, sapere, stare is given in 14.3. Note particularly the monosyllabic forms in the first person singular (except andare and fare), pronounced [ɔ], [dɔ], [sɔ], [stɔ], and that their third person plural forms are formed by adding -nno to the third person singular.

It will be seen from 14.2 that there are two kinds of present tense form of third conjugation verbs (dire and compire are special cases, see 14.3 and 14.5): one, like dormire, forming its present in the manner indicated above, and another, like finire, for which the element -isc- appears between the root and the desinence in all singular forms, and in the third person plural (but not in the first and second persons plural). The majority of third conjugation verbs follow finire, but there is a relatively small group (many of which are, however, in very frequent use), whose present desinences - but not necessarily their roots - follow the pattern of dormire. These verbs need to be learned as a list. They are:

aprire ‘open’; coprire ‘cover’; cucire ‘sew’;fuggire ‘flee’; morire ‘die’; offrire ‘offer’;partire ‘leave’; pentirsi ‘repent’; sentire ‘feel’; salire ‘go up’; soffrire ‘suffer’; uscire ‘go out’; udire ‘hear’; venire ‘come’

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