Gustare in English means to relish, to taste or to enjoy.
In English, we use the word ‘like’ to express liking towards a particular object. For Example: I like this pen.
Another word in Italian that means ‘to like’ is ‘piacere’ or ‘gradire’.
In Italian ‘Con questo raffreddore non riesco a gustare nulla.’ Would translate to ’I can't taste anything with this cold.’ I English
Present Tense:
Ideas based on situations or circumstances can be expressed or taught using Conditional Tense. More often than not Conditional Tense can be used to express some situations which directly deal with past tense and some even with future tense. However, these situations may only use the help of probability.
In Italian the future tense shows an action that is likely to take place in the future. Unlike the English language where “will” or “to be going to” etc would be used a simpler method is used wherein the certain endings mark the future tense.
Future tense in Italian of first person – that means regular “are” verbs is formed by adding “er” instead of the “are” ending and adding o,ai,a,emo,ete,anno as the endings – namely :
In Italian, imperfect tense is simple past tense for describing actions that were repeated in the past or actions that last for indefinite time.
In English, we call the same as the continuous past. Examples of the tense in English are as follows:
1. He was listening to songs.
2. We were watching shows on the television.
3. Every Sunday, they worked.
Sentence 3 shows that the action was also repeated once before.
Singular: ho amato
hai amato
ha amato
sono andato, -a
sei andato, -a
Ë andato, -a
Plural: abbiamo amato
avete amato
hanno amato
siamo andati, -e
siete andati, -e
sono andati, -e †
The Rule to Formation of the mentioned: the Present Indicative of the auxiliary + the past participle
Pluperfect Indicative
Singular: avevo amato
avevi amato
aveva amato
Italian forms continuous aspects quite in the same way as its done in English, that is by using a present tense conjugation of the verb stare (meaning "to be") followed by a present participle of the main verb that is in question. And also depending upon the end of the main verb in the infinitive form, the present participle would replace the infinitive suffix with the end -ando (that is if infinitive form if the verb ends with -are) or -endo (if the infinitive form of the verb ends with -ere or -ire).
Example: Sto leggendo ("I am reading").
The past perfect or the pluperfect tense is the tense that is from the “had” + the past participle. This is capable of showing that an event has taken place by using another event in connection to it within a like span of time. It uses the imperfect tense of avere or essere with a past participle.
Most of the verbs, such as parlare(to speak), sapere(to know), finire(to finish), are conjugated along with ‘avere’, while some other verbs, such as partie(to live), are conjugated along with ‘essere’. Hence we must learn the type of verbs.
We simply have to add -ato, -uto, -ito to the stem of verbs, depending on verb types. If verbs are in infinitive ends with -are, then just add -ato, add endings -uto to verbs that have an ending as -are, and lastly add -ito to the verbs ending with their infinitives –ire
