Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Congiuntivo Imperfetto - the imperfective subjunctive in Italian

It’s subjunctive week. We've already looked at exactly what the subjunctive mood is, and how it is used, and yesterday we took our first look at using the subjunctive in Italian with il congiuntivo presente. Today, we're going to look at il congiuntivo imperfetto.

Il congiuntivo imperfetto
The congiuntivo imperfetto, or imperfect subjunctive, describes an uncertain verb action that was ongoing in the past. It is formed with the following endings:


 
-are
-ere
-ire


che io
-assi
-essi
-issi


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