Italian/Passato

This Italic text tense is like the third form of the verbs in English (done, fallen...), and is used only to compose some other tenses like passato prossimo, trapassato prossimo/remoto, congiuntivo trapassato.

A general rule to form the Participio passato (not valid for the irregular verbs) is the following

for the first and the third group (-are and -ire verbs):

-drop -re -add -to

examples: dare (to give) = dato, mangiare (to eat) = mangiato, dormire (to sleep) = dormito.

for the second group (-ere verbs) -drop -ere -add -uto

cadere (to fall) = caduto; avere (to have) = avuto Remember that for the verbs in which -ere follows -sc (conoscere (to know)), the sound sh must be preserved also in the participio passato form, so an -i must be added in front of -uto:

conoscere = conosciuto

some irregular verbs:

essere (to be) =  stato

Italiano/Passato