Italian · Chapter 2 · Lesson 4 · Grammar primer
Verbs
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification.
The short version
The hardest Italian verbs are the ones you need first
Essere, avere, fare, dire, andare, potere, volere and dovere are all irregular, and that is not bad luck. A verb used a hundred times a day gets learned whole by every child and never gets tidied into the regular pattern. Frequency protects irregularity, in Italian as in English.
Posso fare questo.
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Lesson 4 of 15 in this chapter