Conjunation

Italian verb conjugation

1,522 Italian verbs with full conjugation tables — every tense and pronoun.

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Most common Italian verbs

  1. stare to stay
  2. piacere to pleasure
  3. diventare to become
  4. rimanere to stay
  5. succedere to take the place
  6. esistere to exist
  7. iniziare to begin
  8. togliere to take off
  9. mancare to be lacking
  10. ascoltare to listen to
  11. aggiungere to add
  12. comprendere to comprise
  13. raccontare to tell
  14. mantenere to maintain
  15. muovere to move
  16. accadere to happen
  17. apparire to appear
  18. attendere to wait for
  19. appartenere to belong
  20. avvenire to happen
  21. essere to be
  22. avere to have
  23. andare to go
  24. fare to do
  25. dire to say
  26. potere to be able to
  27. volere to want
  28. sapere to know
  29. venire to come
  30. dovere to have to
  31. vedere to see
  32. prendere to take
  33. dare to give
  34. pensare to think
  35. parlare to speak
  36. trovare to find
  37. chiedere to ask
  38. mettere to put
  39. partire to depart
  40. sentire to hear
  41. aspettare to wait for
  42. sembrare to seem
  43. lasciare to leave
  44. restare to stay
  45. passare to pass
  46. tenere to hold
  47. portare to bring
  48. guardare to look
  49. perdere to lose
  50. entrare to enter

Italian tenses explained

Present (Presente)

The presente covers habits, ongoing situations, and plans about to start — much like English “I study” and “I am studying”. One present tense does both in Italian.

Lavora da casa tre giorni a settimana.

Present subjunctive (Congiuntivo presente)

The congiuntivo presente is required after many verbs and fixed phrases of will, fear, purpose, and doubt. Impersonal and semi-impersonal triggers (è importante che) also force the subjunctive mood.

Penso che sia la scelta giusta.

Imperative (affirmative) (Imperativo)

The affirmative imperativo reuses the tu form as 3sg for -are verbs, while other conjugations use the normal tu present. It is the direct command register.

Raccontami com'è andata l'esame.

Simple past (Passato remoto)

The passato remoto tells a completed, narrative past, especially in the south and in literature. The passato prossimo is the normal spoken past in the north, so you choose register and region, not a difference in time alone.

Quella sera arrivò tardi, senza alibi.

Imperfect subjunctive (Congiuntivo imperfetto)

The congiuntivo imperfetto is the past of the congiuntivo system after a past matrix clause and in se + congi. imperf. → condizionale with unreal conditions.

Se avessi più tempo, viaggerei ogni mese.

Imperative (negative) (Imperativo negativo)

Negative commands use non + full infinitive in modern Italian, which is a distinctive rule compared to other Romance languages. Polite or indirect “please don’t” can still soften the tone in context.

Non aprire quella finestra, per favore.

Imperfect (Imperfetto)

The imperfetto is for incomplete past actions, context, and repeated or habitual situations without a clear end. The passato prossimo, not the remoto, is its usual “event” partner in speech.

Da bambina passavo le estati al mare.

Conditional (Condizionale)

The condizionale is for polite “would you…”, first-condition hypotheticals, and reported future from a past point of view. The classic if-chain is se + imperfetto → condizionale.

Potresti alzare un poco la voce?

Future (Futuro semplice)

The futuro semplice is for predictions and far decisions. In speech you often hear the present (with a time adverb) or a paraphrase, and a famous trick is the futuro di probabilità for a present guess: saranno le tre.

Domani partiremo all'alba.

Present perfect (Passato prossimo)

The passato prossimo is the workhorse preterit-like past in the north and in everyday Italian: avere/essere + participle, essere for reflexives, motion, and other change-of-state patterns.

Siamo andati a piedi, poi abbiamo preso l'autobus.

Pluperfect (Trapassato prossimo)

The trapassato prossimo is “further in the past than another past” — the Italian pluperfect. It pairs with a main past clause to mark sequence.

Avevamo già mangiato quando suonò il telefono.

Conditional perfect (Condizionale passato)

The condizionale passato is for unreal or missed past results and often appears with se + trapassato prossimo in the protasis.

Avrei accettato, se mi avessero avvisato in tempo.

Future perfect (Futuro anteriore)

The futuro anteriore says something will already be over before a still-later future, or, like the French, can express a logical guess about a past result.

Entro le cinque, avrà già lasciato l'ufficio.