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Pronomi personali with Emphatic and Idiomatic Pronominal Verbs

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  1. Some verbs take on a more emphatic, idiomatic meaning when they are used with the pronouns la or ne, which attach to the infinitive forms. In their infinitive forms, these verbs end in -cela, -sela, or -sene, as well as in other ways. These are known as verbs with pronominal particles (particelle pronominali).

    Let’s look at the verbs andarsene and farcela. You can see the endings -sene and -cela in the infinitives. Observe how they are conjugated in the present indicative and the passato prossimo in the following table.

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    Passato Prossimo

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    Passato Prossimo

    me ne vadome ne sono andato/ace la faccioce l’ho fatta
    te ne vaite ne sei andato/ace la faice l’hai fatta
    se ne vase ne è (n’è) andato/ace la face l’ha fatta
    ce ne andiamoce ne siamo andati/ece la facciamoce l’abbiamo fatta
    ve ne andateve ne siete andati/ece la fatece l’avete fatta
    se ne vannose ne sono andati/ece la fannoce l’hanno fatta

    As you can see in the above table, the particella se is the only one that changes form—to the combined reflexive pronoun form -- in all the conjugations; the particelle ce, la, and ne do not change. Use these verbs as templates for conjugating the following examples.

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