{"id":70305,"date":"2019-11-18T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/italian-verb-conjugation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:39:41","slug":"italian-verb-conjugation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/italian\/italian-verb-conjugation\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Verb Conjugation: The Essential Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask former language students where they gave up on learning Italian, or where they thought the end of the road was, it\u2019s here: Italian\u00a0verb conjugations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This may sound all too familiar to you, so let’s get you back on track with this post and help you have a healthier attitude on the subject.<\/p>\n

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What You Need to Know Before Conjugating<\/h2>\n

Verb<\/strong> conjugation is when you turn a verb like \u201crun\u201d into \u201cran\u201d or \u201crunning\u201d or \u201cwill run.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this section, we lay the groundwork and talk about the things that you\u2019re going to use to conjugate verbs.<\/p>\n

Italian Pronouns<\/h3>\n

To correctly conjugate a verb, you need to know who is doing the action<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, you need to know if they\u2019re in the first person, second person or third person point of view, and whether they\u2019re singular or plural. Why? Because each takes on a different verb form<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a summary of Italian pronouns<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Point of View<\/th>Meaning<\/th>Italian<\/th>English<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
First Person<\/td>Used when you\u2019re talking about yourself, your opinions and the things that happened to you.<\/td> io <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>I<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
noi <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>we<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Person<\/td>Refers to the person you\u2019re addressing.<\/td> tu <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>you (singular)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
voi <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>you (plural)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Third Person<\/td>Refers to the people and objects talked about.<\/td> lui <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>he \/ it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
lei <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>she \/ it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
esso <\/a>\n <\/em>, essa <\/a>\n <\/em><\/td>it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
loro <\/a>\n <\/em>, essi <\/a>\n <\/em>, esse <\/a>\n <\/em> <\/td>they<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

A couple of quick notes:<\/p>\n