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All About ‘-ing’ Posted by on Apr 8, 2015

In English, we make extensive use of the suffix ‘–ing’. In Italian, however, there are a number of different ways in which ‘–ing’ can be translated. Let’s have a look at three of the most common ones: 1. Il Gerundio = The Gerund a. sto scrivendo un articolo = I’m writing an article b. stiamo…

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The Living Dead or How to use the Present Participle in Italian Posted by on Jan 9, 2014

Hands up who knows what the participio presente (present participle) is. What, no one? Well it’s not really that surprising, in fact the present participle is not even usually found in Italian language books for foreigners. The present participle is easily recognisable by its particular ending: –are verbs (such as tremare) change their ending to…

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