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A2 Conjugation Grammar

The imperfetto: irregular verbs

by Alessio · teacher of Italian as a foreign language, ITALS master’s

Conjugate the irregular verbs in the imperfetto, one at a time: write every person, then check.

What's in this exercise

“The imperfetto: irregular verbs” is an Italian exercise at A2 level with 10 verbs to conjugate. All the forms are listed below in Italian, with the English translation of each verb.

Verbs, forms and the English translation (10)
distrarreto distract
distraevo · distraevi · distraeva · distraevamo · distraevate · distraevano
comporreto compose
componevo · componevi · componeva · componevamo · componevate · componevano
condurreto lead, to conduct
conducevo · conducevi · conduceva · conducevamo · conducevate · conducevano
proporreto propose, to suggest
proponevo · proponevi · proponeva · proponevamo · proponevate · proponevano
produrreto produce
producevo · producevi · produceva · producevamo · producevate · producevano
tradurreto translate
traducevo · traducevi · traduceva · traducevamo · traducevate · traducevano
bereto drink
bevevo · bevevi · beveva · bevevamo · bevevate · bevevano
direto say
dicevo · dicevi · diceva · dicevamo · dicevate · dicevano
fareto do (to make)
facevo · facevi · faceva · facevamo · facevate · facevano
essereto be
ero · eri · era · eravamo · eravate · erano

The rule: the imperfetto

The imperfetto is the background tense: how things were, what people used to do, what was going on. Da bambino passavo le estati dai nonni: no beginning, no end, just the scene.

The conjugation (the most regular there is)

parl-AREav-EREdorm-IRE
ioparlavoavevodormivo
tuparlaviavevidormivi
lui / leiparlavaavevadormiva
noiparlavamoavevamodormivamo
voiparlavateavevatedormivate
loroparlavanoavevanodormivano
Only one truly irregular verb: essere (ero, eri, era, eravamo, eravate, erano). Then fare (facevo), dire (dicevo), bere (bevevo): irregular only in the stem.

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