39: A quick trick to remember Italian verbs
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🗓️ 9 February 2018
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Italian verbs. There are lots of them, and they can pain to remember at first! But they’re not as hard as you think - you can make them easier to remember by organising them into logical groups.
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Today's words
Parlare = to speak
Scrivere = to write
Dormire = to sleep
Parlo = I speak
Scrivo = I write
Dormo = I sleep
Parli = you speak
Scrivi = you write
Dormi = you sleep
Parliamo = we speak
Scriviamo = we write
Dormiamo = we sleep
Arrivare = arrive
Arrivo = I arrive
Arrivo domani = I arrive tomorrow
Arriviamo = we arrive
Arriviamo domani = we arrive tomorrow
Prendere = I take
Prendo una pizza = I’ll have a pizza
Prendi una pizza? = Are you having a pizza?
Aprire = open
Apriamo = we open
Una bottiglia di vino = a bottle of wine
Apriamo una bottiglia di vino = Let’s open a bottle of wine/shall we open a bottle of wine?
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| 0:00.0 | Italian verbs. There's lots of them and they can be a real pain to remember at first, |
| 0:05.9 | but they're not as hard as you think. You can make them easier by organising them into logical groups. |
| 0:12.4 | Learn how in episode 39 of 5 Minutes Italian. Ciao all |
| 0:27.5 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Mateo. |
| 0:34.6 | Ciao. |
| 0:35.5 | So you may know that there are three groups of verbs in Italian. |
| 0:40.2 | We've got verbs that end in A-R-E, |
| 0:44.0 | like, |
| 0:45.8 | parlare to speak. |
| 0:48.6 | Verbs that end in E-R-E, |
| 0:51.4 | like scrivere to write. |
| 1:00.6 | And verbs that end in I-R-E, like Scriver-E, to write, and verbs that end in I-R-E, like Dormire to sleep. |
| 1:07.0 | You may also know that the ending of these verbs change, depending on who's doing the action. |
| 1:11.6 | For example, to say, I speak, we start with verb, parlare, we remove the aere, so we just get parl, and add o, |
| 1:18.6 | parlo. |
| 1:19.6 | This is called verb conjugation. |
| 1:22.6 | And people often learn the conjugations one group at a time. |
| 1:28.1 | But this can be confusing and it's a bit of a backwards way of doing it |
| 1:31.5 | because many of the endings are actually the same for all three groups. |
| 1:36.5 | So the easiest way to remember these verb endings is to learn the same endings first, |
| 1:42.0 | so the ones that are the same for all of the groups, and then learn the |
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