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Introduction to the Passato Prossimo

Irregular Past Participles

Special Rules and Uses

Agreement of the Past Participle

Introduction to the Passato Remoto

Irregular Verbs

Conceptual Difference Between passato remoto and passato prossimo

Introduction to the Trapassato Prossimo

Trapassato Prossimo and Subordinate Clauses

Trapassato Prossimo and Indirect Speech

Introduction to the Trapassato Remoto

Conjunctions of Time

The Imperfect (L’imperfetto)

Using L’imperfetto and Passato Prossimo together

General Introduction to the passato remoto

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  1. Regular Verbs in the passato remote

    2. The passato remote (past absolute or remote past) is a form of past tense. In general, the passato remoto is used for historical events or for events that happened to the speaker in the distant past. You will most often encounter this tense in formal writing--both nonfiction and fiction--and less often in speech.

    For regular verbs, the passato remoto is formed by adding appropriate endings to the stem of the verb. Following is a chart showing how regular verbs in -are, -ere, and -ire are conjugated in the passato remoto. The added endings are in bold.

    amare

    vendere

    finire

    amaivendei (vendetti)finii
    amastivendestifinisti
    amòvendé (vendette)finì
    amammovendemmofinimmo
    amastevendestefiniste
    amaronovenderono (vendettero)finirono

    NB: As you can see in the table above, -ere verbs have two sets of possible endings in some persons. It is advisable not to use the endings -etti, -ette, -ettero when the verb stem ends in “t”. For instance: battere (battei), discutere (discutei). As for the rest, there are no set rules and both forms are acceptable.

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