501 Italian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged (501 verbs series) (Paperback)

by John Colaneri (Author), Vincent Luciani (Author)

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Joining Barron's consummately useful 501 Verbs series, the most commonly used Italian verbs are featured in this quick and easy reference. Contains chapters on regular conjugations, compound tenses, a summary of meanings and uses of Italian verb tenses, language help for travelers, and more.

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Text: English, Italian

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Product Details

• Paperback: 518 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812047575
• ISBN-13: 978-0812047578
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #993,315 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome... totally awesome, December 23, 2001

By	Pike Athens (the coast of California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 501 Italian Verbs (Paperback)

This book is absolutely packed with almost everything a language student could need. As it lists, there are five hundred one verbs, all arranged alphabetically throughout the book. It lists each verb in its seven simple tenses (present indicative, imperfect, past absolute, future, present conditional, present subjunctive, and imperfect subjunctive) and its seven compound tenses (present perfect, past perfect, past anterior, future perfect, past conditional, past subjunctive, and past perfect subjunctive). It has a page on pronunciation of Italian vowels and consonants, and then it goes into talking about how to conjugate the verbs. It begins with showing how to conjugate regular verbs, following this with the Italian translations of each tense's and mood's name. An example conjugation of an English verb is then shown to help illustrate what each tense means. After this comes further explanation of the verbs' tenses and moods, in which it deals with each of the fourteen given tenses. It simplifies the regular conjugation endings after this by showing what is taken away and added to each infinitive for each tense. Then finally come the five hundred one verbs, each one with at least two example sentences to help the reader understand its usage. Afterward comes a section on verbs which take a preposition, a list of phrases in Italian for dealing with everyday situation, days, months, how to count to 100, currency, weights, measures, temperatures, and clothing measurements. Lastly come two indices dealing with the verbs: first the index about irregular forms commonly found in the language, matching them with the verb from which they are inflected; then comes the index of English-Italian verbs as a cross-reference. This is an awesome choice to not be overlooked. Glancing through the book every so often will help to increase your vocabulary, and if you stick to a plan of learning so many verbs a day/week, you'll be learning them even more quickly. It's a simple and awesome book that any student or teacher would enjoy and appreciate.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 501 Italian Verbs:Fully Conjugated, March 22, 2000

By	Audrey Mayfield (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This book was very helpful for the Beginner to Intermediate. A constant source for reference as well as for "pulling together" the thousands of idioms and related vocabulary which is helpful only if you can use the verb correctly. A basic and a must for Italian studenti! I lost my copy to my professor and had to buy another one. A great value.

21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Missing accents, March 25, 1998

By	[e-mail] (LA) - See all my reviews

This book leaves out accents. For examples, take the verb abitare. In the pres. ind. this verb is accented as such: Abito, Abiti, Abita, abitiAmo, abitAte, Abitano. Unlike some of the other Romance languages, typically Italian only accents words having a stress on the last syllable, e.g., società. Therefore, the authors of this book should have used some means to indicate where the stress falls in various verbs deviating from the rule that the word is stressed on the penult. This is a serious fault with this type of work!