CLASSES SECOND

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

The Past Simple Of Regular and Irregular Verbs

Il Past Simple traduce il Passato Prossimo, il Passato Remoto e l'imperfetto.

 

 

 

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS

REGULAR VERBS

 

BASE FORM

 

PAST SIMPLE

PAST PARTICIPLE

TRANSLATION

VISIT

VISITED

VISITED

VISITARE

ARRIVE

ARRIVED

ARRIVED

ARRIVARE

LIVE

LIVED

LIVED

VIVERE/ABITARE

STUDY

STUDIED

STUDIED

STUDIARE

PLAY

PLAYED

PLAYED

GIOCARE/SUONARE/RECITARE

STOP

STOPPED

STOPPED

FERMARSI

TRAVEL

TRAVELLED

TRAVELLED

VIAGGIARE

PREFER

PREFERRED

PREFERRED

PREFERIRE

 

Regole ortografiche - Spelling Rules (regular verbs)

  •   I verbi terminanti in –E aggiungono solo –D:

     like – liked              hope – hoped

  •  I verbi terminanti in consonante+Y trasformano la Y in I e aggiungono –ED:   try – tried   reply – replied
  • I verbi monosillabici terminanti in una sola consonante, preceduta da una sola vocale raddoppiano la consonante finale:

                      stop – stopped        plan – planned

  • I verbi bisillabici con l’accento sull’ultima sillaba, raddoppiano la consonante finale:                       preFER – preferred           reGRET - regretted

 

IRREGULAR VERBS

BASE FORM

 

PAST SIMPLE

PAST PARTICIPLE

TRANSLATION

BRING

BROUGHT

BROUGHT

PORTARE

BUY

BOUGHT

BOUGHT

COMPRARE

COME

CAME

COME

VENIRE

DO

DID

DONE

FARE

DRINK

DRANK

DRUNK

BERE

GET

GOT

GOT

OTTENERE

GO

WENT

GONE

ANDARE

HAVE

HAD

HAD

AVERE

HIDE

HID

HIDDEN

NASCONDERE

READ

READ

READ

LEGGERE

SPEAK

SPOKE

SPOKEN

PARLARE

TEACH

TAUGHT

TAUGHT

INSEGNARE

WAKE

WOKE

WOKEN

SVEGLIARE

WRITE

WROTE

WRITTEN

SCRIVERE

 

 

SOME EXCEPTIONS OF THE PRONUNCIATION  "ED".

 

The following -ed words used as adjectives are pronounced with /Id/:

 

  • aged
  • blessed  

 

  • dogged   d
  • learned

 

  • ragged
  • wicked  

 

 

Fill in with the correct tenses.