Conjugating Italian Verbs Ending in -IRE

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Whoops! At 3:55 it says "I like coffee, but I prefer tea." It should read "I like tea, but I prefer coffee." Sorry!

[@brucemartin8435]

Professor Dave Explains Just spotted it which may mean I learning learning. Great content sir!

[@jesseyork4024]

Professor Dave, at 2:47 it says Sentire means (to listen). I believe it means (to feel).

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Multiple meanings! Lots of words in Italian are this way.

[@anaismacq6753]

Thanks for this video ! I am French but with confinement I no longer have Italian lessons. Listening in English is not a problem, because your accent is easy to understand. It really helped me!

[@LucasFlynn-m6v]

I have looked at this multiple times and realized that you can tell when a word is in pattern A or B. To find a Pattern A verb, one must look at the two letters before -ire. If there is a double consonant, the verb is pattern A. Ex: mentire, sentire, partire To find a Pattern B verb: one must look at the two letters before -ire. If there is a vowel then a consonant preceding -ire, then the verb is a Pattern B verb. Ex: Pulire, Finire, Ubbidire

[@JosephWohltmann]

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR ITALIAN TEACHER FOR DISCOVERING THIS NIFTY TRICK!

[@patriciangomane2260]

Was about to drop out of Italian lessons then I found this gem! Thanks Prof Dave :)

[@inathaci98]

thank you so much for taking the time and explaining this so well. I'm having a lot of trouble understanding the conjugation of the verbs ending in -ire and their prefixes, but this helps very much. Also, I believe the sentence, "mi piace il te, ma preferisco il caffe" needs to be translated the other way around ;)

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

whoops! haha what a dumb error, thanks for catching that.

[@sugathchanakawijerathna9629]

Thanks professor. Greetings from Sri Lanka 👍

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

someone please give me a list of Pattern A vs Pattern B... please

[@ainuraeiv]

if you found it , could you share , please ? I'm also looking for it

[@michaelc2251]

Hey Prof, would you make a video for the "urre" verbs? There isn't anything out there that I can find they go unmentioned. Grazie.

[@janeyre82]

Your're actually talking about the "RRE" verbs. They're just a subcategory of "ere" verbs with an irregular (contracted) infinitive: --> TRARRE and its derived verbs such as "astrarre", "attrarre", "contrarre", "detrarre", "distrarre", "estrarre", "ritrarre" etc. --> PORRE and its derived verbs such as "apporre", "comporre", "decomporre", "deporre", "disporre", "esporre", "frapporre", "imporre", "indisporre", "interporre", "opporre", "posporre", "preporre", "riporre", "sottoporre", "sovrapporre", "supporre" etc. --> all the derived verbs of the ancient Italian item "DURRE" (which nowadays is no longer used on its own) such as "addurre", "condurre", "dedurre", "indurre", "produrre", "ridurre", "sedurre", "tradurre" etc. These three verbs derive from Latin and ancient Italian TRAHĔRE, PONĔRE and DUCĔRE: their infinitive acquired the current form by contraction. Nonetheless, their natural stem and thematic vowel "tra(h)e-", "pone-" and "duce-" appear back in the present tense and in all the regular forms of the conjugation, which makes it evident that they belong to the "ere" pattern: TRAETE - PONETE - CONDUCETE TRAEVO - PONEVO - CONDUCEVO TRAESTI - PONESTI - CONDUCESTI TRAESSI - PONESSI - CONDUCESSI and so on. The three of them are strongly irregular verbs anyway, so their whole conjugations have to be learned by heart.

[@michaelc2251]

@@janeyre82 Grazie, this helps understand the background, I've figured out that most of them I need to memorise, It also helps explain why the past absolute has a lot of verbs with 1st and 3rd person irregular like Dissi, Disse, Dissero

[@lovroruzicic3361]

Thank you,you saved me.

[@atchuk9045]

Can u explain based on space

[@amolpathak199]

At 4:05 The children clean their room or cleaning their room?

[@janeyre82]

Both. In Italian the simple present ("pulisco") can also be used to introduce an action in the moment of its taking place. The present progressive ("sto pulendo") is more precise but not compulsory.

[@hemavathithirumalai2855]

is prof dave an italian? omg

[@ambervancott3486]

Hi

[@curtpiazza1688]

Excellent!

[@addaigrace3051]

Grazieeee

[@vanigurudutts3907]

Great job

[@zhangkeviolin]

03:55 Is there a mistake? Mi piace il tè, ma preferisco il caffe= I like coffee, but I prefer tea. Should it be ( i like tè, but i prefer coffee. )???

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

haha whoops! thanks for catching that

[@zhangkeviolin]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains haha, it means I did pay attention to watch your video:) Nice work, really learn a lot from you!