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Il Gerundio–Part 2 Posted by Serena on Nov 16, 2012
Last week we looked at the most common uses of Il Gerundio (the gerund) in Italian. Today we are going to look at cases in which the gerund is used in English but not in Italian. In Italian, we do not use the gerund: 1. After another verb In this case we use the infinitive whereas…
Il Gerundio Posted by Serena on Nov 9, 2012
Il gerundio (the gerund) refers to the use of a verb in its –ing form. For example ‘I am writing’, I was thinking, he is talking, etc. In Italian il gerundio (the gerund) is characterised by the following endings: Verbs ending in –are = ando e.g. mangiando (eating) from the verb mangiare (to eat) Verbs…