ABITARE – to live, to stay
AIUTARE – to help
AMARE – to love
CENARE – to have dinner
COMPRARE – to buy
LAVORARE – to work
PARLARE – to speak
PENSARE – to think
PRANZARE – to have lunch
STUDIARE – to study
TELEFONARE – to call, to telephone
L’AIUTO – help
INGLESE – English (adjective, person and also language)
ITALIANO – Italian (adjective, person also language) (for pronunciation go to Lesson 5)
An alphabetical list of the vocabulary can be found here.
Above you can see the some examples of the verbs of this class “-ARE”. You can recognize them very quickly, at the end of the verb there are these three letters: “are”.
In order to conjugate these verbs first of all you need to cut off this suffix “are” and then you add the suffixes from this table:
| VERBS class -ARE | |||
| SINGULAR | PLURAL | ||
| I: | (io) verb + o | we: | (noi) verb + iamo |
| you (singular): | (tu) verb + i | you (plural): | (voi) verb + ate |
| he, she: | (lui, lei) verb + a | they: | (loro) verb + ano |
Let’s see the first example: the verb PARLARE.
Cut off the suffix “are” → PARL and add the suffixes from the table:
| PARLARE | |||
| SINGULAR | PLURAL | ||
| I: | (io) parlo | we: | (noi) parliamo |
| you (singular): | (tu) parli | you (plural): | (voi) parlate |
| he, she: | (lui, lei) parla | they: | (loro) parlano |
The same applies on the other verbs (put accent on the red syllable):
ABITARE – abito, abiti, abita, abitiamo, abitate, abitano
AIUTARE – aiuto, aiuti, aiuta, aiutiamo, aiutate, aiutano
AMARE – amo, ami, ama, amiamo, amate, amano
CENARE – ceno, ceni, cena, ceniamo, cenate, cenano
COMPRARE – compro, compri, compra, compriamo, comprate, comprano
LAVORARE – lavoro, lavori, lavora, lavoriamo, lavorate, lavorano
PENSARE – penso, pensi, pensa, pensiamo, pensate, pensano
PRANZARE – pranzo, pranzi, pranza, pranziamo, pranzate, pranzano
STUDIARE – studio, studi, studia, studiamo, studiate, studiano
TELEFONARE – telefono, telefoni, telefona, telefoniamo, telefonate, telefonano
Notice the verb STUDIARE. If there is already an “i” at the end leave only one “i”, don’t add another one. That’s why it isn’t “studii” but it’s only “studi”.
Pay attention to the correct pronunciation, observe the changes of the pronunciation which are regular for all the verbs above except “telefonare” and “abitare”. These two verbs are exceptions. Normally the accent is on the second syllable from the end of the word in singular: par-lo, aiu-to, a-mo, ce-no, comp-ro, lavo-ro, pen-so, pran-zo, stu-dio. But here the accent is on the third syllable from the end: tele-fo-no and a-bi-to. In the first and second person of plural all the verbs are normal (parla-te – telefona-te) with the accent on the second syllable from the end. But in the third person plural there is again the exception, normally for all the verbs the accents moves one syllable back from the second to the third syllable from the end: par-la-no, comp-ra-no, lavo-ra-no but for the exceptions it moves from the third to the fourth syllable from the end: tele-fo-na-no and a-bi-ta-no.