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The following Italian tutorial was written by a soon to be graduate student in linguistics named Jennifer Wagner, who runs a fantastic website called Indo-European Languages - ielanguages.com. We thank her for generously allowing us to post her work here! |
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27. Italian Verbs Venir & Ir: to Come and to Go
| vengo | vehn-goh | veniamo | ven-ee-ah-moh |
| vieni | vee-en-ee | venite | ven-ee-teh |
| viene | vee-en-eh | vengono | ven-goh-noh |
Vengo a scuola in macchina. I come to school by car. (It's a scuola instead of alla scuola because it's an idiom.)
To make a verb negative, add non before it: Non vengo a scuola in macchina. I don't come to school by car.
| vado | vah-doh | andiamo | ahn-dee-ah-moh |
| vai | vah-ee | andate | ahn-dah-teh |
| va | vah | vanno | vahn-noh |
Other verbs conjugated in the same pattern as venire are:
avvenire - to happen, to occur
convenire - to convene
divenire - to become
provenire - to come from, to proceed
sovvenire - to help
svenire - to faint
Tenere (to keep) verbs are conjuaged very similarly to venire too, except the voi form ends in -ete instead of -ite:
appartenere - to belong
contenere - to contain
intrattenere - to entertain
mantenere - to maintain
ottenere - to obtain
ritenere - to retain
sostenere - to sustain, to support
trattenere - to withhold, to detain
