Tag Archives: Italian modal verbs
I Should Have Studied Italian! Posted by Serena on May 9, 2016
I should have studied Italian! Now how would you say that in Italian? This is the second in a series of articles covering the three very important verbi modali (modal verbs): dovere (to have to), volere (to want) and potere (to be able). You can find the first article HERE. Today we’ll examine the conjugations of…
I Must Study Italian Posted by Serena on May 2, 2016
Devo studiare l’italiano (I must study Italian), is something that we hear a lot from you, dear readers. We sympathise, trying to learn a foreign language when you don’t live in situ is really tough! We’re also aware that we do quite a lot of high level grammar articles, such as the compound constructions that…
The Modal Verbs Volere, Dovere, and Potere Posted by Serena on Oct 5, 2011
The passato prossimo, as we saw in the last blog, makes use of the auxiliary verbs essere = to be, and avere = to have, in order to express an event that happened in the past, e.g.: sono andato/a = I went, ho mangiato = I ate, siamo venuti/e = we came, abbiamo visto =…