Essential Italian Verbs: Teach Yourself

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Essential Italian Verbs is the course for you if you need help with your study of Italian. This fully revised edition of our best-selling course now comes with plenty of hints on how to learn verbs effectively.

The aim of this book is to help you improve your command of Italian by focusing on one aspect of language learning that invariably causes difficulties - verbs and the way they behave.

Whether you are a complete beginner or a relatively advanced learner, you can consult the book when you need to know the form of a verb quickly.

The introductory section gives you a complete overview of Italian verbs and how they work in the various tenses. This book also contains:

- full coverage of the main tenses for 200 frequently used Italian verbs arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference

- examples of the verbs in everyday use, with colloquial expressions and words sharing the same origin

- an Italian-English verb list of approximately 3000 verbs with details of the patterns they follow

- an English-Italian verb list giving the most frequently used English verbs in Italian with details of the patterns they follow

Essential Italian includes:

Chapter 1: What is a verb?

Chapter 2: I, you, he, she, it...: person

Chapter 3: Past, present, future...: tense

Chapter 4: Regular and irregular verbs

Chapter 5: Formation and use of tenses

Chapter 6: Indicative, conditional subjunctive, imperative...: mood

Chapter 7: The active and passive voices

Chapter 8: Transitive and intransitive verbs

Chapter 9: Impersonal verbs and constructions

Chapter 10: Impersonal verbs and constructions

Chapter 11: The impersonal si and the passive si

Chapter 12: Model verbs

Chapter 13: Verbs not related to time

Chapter 14: Verb-noun collocations

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