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Italian verb tenses Hello everyone. I am learning italian by myself so I am finding a bit of trouble at the conjugation of the verbs. I downloaded an application recently for studying the verb tenses only to find strange tenses, I don't think they exist in english language as far as i know.For example, the verb baciare for kiss is conjugated in these strange tenses as baciavo (imperfect), baciai (past absolute), avio bacciato (future perfect) and ebbi baciato (past anterior). I never heard of these tenses before so if anyone can help me with the meaning of these conjugations and tenses would be great. Thank you

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Hi Mai, I also just started learning italian myself. Imperfect: baciavo is "I was kissing" or "I used to kiss" and from my research: Past absolute (passato remoto): http://italian.about.com/od/verbs/a/italian-verbs-remote-past-tense.htm Its the same as passato prossimo. The difference between passato prossimo and passato remoto is that passato prossimo is used more often, especially in speaking Future perfect (futuro anteriore): avio baciato (I will have kissed). Examples: http://italian.about.com/od/verbs/a/italian-verbs-future-perfect-tense.htm Past anterior(Trapassato Remoto): ebbi baciato http://italian.about.com/od/verbs/a/italian-verbs-preterite-perfect-tense.htm
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dear friend presente = io bacio; english =simple present passato prossimo = ho baciato ; eng similar present perfect imperfetto (indicativo) = io baciavo ; engl. similar present perfect passato remoto = io baciai ; engl. similar simple past trapassato remoto = io ebbi baciato ; engl. similar past perfect otterrà tenses italian are not much used commonly but there is a big problem with the corrispondence ve tweet the thenses see you
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ciao Mai so tutto dei verbi italiani ma poco di quelli inglesi ihih ma ora mi organizzo e ti spiegherò ciao

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