Significance:/ Meaning: This tense is said as compound tense because it is made up of two parts and it also indicates an action in the past which is entirely completed.
See your training:/ See your training:
Ausiliare verb al present + passato participle
Esempi: / Examples:
1) Giulia there is fact the scene. / Giulia made dinner.
2) Giulia she is andata alla scuola. / Giulia went to school.
Osservazione / Observation
For you to conjugate a verb in the passato prossimo, it is important to know:
- Which auxiliary verb should you use: Essere or Avere?
- Know if the participle of the verb is regular or irregular.
Vedi la tabella sotto: / See table below:
Regole generali / General Rules
| Verb | regular past participle |
| (ARE) BUYARE | BUYACT |
| (ERE) SALEERE | SELLUTO |
| (IRE) PARTIRE | PARTITO |
See it in the tabella sotto la coniugazione. / See the conjugation in the table below.
| speech people | BUY | SELL | LEAVE |
| Io | ho bought | Ho sale | Broken sleep |
| You | hai purchase | hai venduct | I know the party |
| Law/Lui/Law | There is a store | there is venduct | È party |
| No I | Buy Abbiamo | Abbiamo venduto | Siamo partiti/e |
| go | vete vete | venduct ave | Siete partiti/e |
| parrot | Hanno shop | Hanno venduct | Partial sleep |
Vedi degli esempi: / See some examples:
Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
1) Giuseppe there is a store a macchina nuova. / Giuseppe bought a new car.
2) Ho sale a Maria un dizionario d’italiano./ I sold Maria an Italian dictionary.
3) Siamo partite when Matteo it's arrivato./ We all left when Matteo arrived.
Pay attention! / Watch!
For all verbs that have as an auxiliary the ESSERE it is necessary to agree the genders (masculine and feminine) and also the number (singular and plural).
Osserva le frasi: / Note the sentences:
1) Giulia è turnThe./ Giulia has returned.
2) Giulia and Maria sleep uscitand with me. / Giulia and Maria left with me.
3) Giuseppe and Marco sleep arrivati di sera./ Giuseppe and Marco arrived at night.
4) parrot sleep partiti ieri sera./ They left last night.
5) Alberto andMaria sleep venuti from the mother. / Alberto and Maria came to my house.
Verbs used:
- make (back)
- uscire (exit)
- arrivare (exit)
- depart (depart)
- come (come)
Nota Bene! / Watch carefully!
In the example of sentence number five you could see that there is a masculine noun + a feminine noun (Alberto and Maria), like this, all verbs with auxiliary essere in compound tenses, when there is such a case, will obey the rule of gender and masculine number.
Isabela Reis de Paula
Brazil School Collaborator
Graduated in Languages with Qualification in Portuguese and Italian
By the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
Italian - Brazil School
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
PAULA, Isabela Reis de. "Passato Prossimo: verbi regolari"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/italiano/passato-prossimo-verbi-regolari.htm. Accessed on June 29, 2021.
