Tag Archives: Italian future tense
Past, Present and Future, Quiz Solutions Posted by Geoff on Jan 12, 2015
Well done to those of you who had a go at last week’s quiz. If you missed it and would like to have a go before reading the solutions you can find it here. In the quiz we asked you to translate a number of sentences into Italian using the appropriate tense of the given…
Past, Present and Future Posted by Serena on Jan 5, 2015
Here we are at the beginning of a new year, and isn’t it funny how saying something like “I haven’t seen my friend Fabio since last year” makes it seem like a distant event, when in reality I saw him less than a week ago? Past, present and future, now seems like a good time…
Presente o Futuro? Posted by Serena on Nov 17, 2010
Some time ago I wrote an article dealing with the future tense I Propositi per l’Anno Nuovo. However, as I often receive comments from readers asking why we use the present tense a lot in Italian when we are talking about the future, I’m going to explain in this blog how to know when to…
I Propositi per l’Anno Nuovo Posted by Serena on Dec 27, 2009
Il 2010 è vicino ed è tempo di pensare ai propositi per l’anno nuovo (2010 is near and it’s time to think about our resolutions for the new year). When we were children sitting around the table eating lunch on new year’s day, my mother used to ask me and my brothers: “Avete fatto i…