| 9.3.1.3 formation of the passato remoto 2 |
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| soffrire | (to suffer) | soffr | ii |
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| udire | (to hear) | ud |
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| aprire | (to open) | apr |
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| riuscire | (to finish) | riusc |
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| morire | (to die) | mor |
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| offrire | (to offer) | offr |
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| salire | (to board) | sal |
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| apparire | (to show up) | appar |
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| examples | ||
| L' anno scorso mi comprai una bella macchina, ma dovetti venderla. Last year I bought a nice car, but I had to sell it. |
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| Quando morì sua moglie vendette la casa. When his wife died, he sold the house. |
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| Andò via e non tornò mai. He left and never came back. |
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The passato remoto seems difficult to learn because there are a lot of irregular verbs. We are going to see later that there is a regularity inside the irregularity and to the round about 2000 irregular verbs correspond only roughly 80 patterns and most of these patterns are a mix of a few irregularities. Therefore, the problem is not as huge as it may appear at first glance. We are going to discuss that later again.
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