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“Congiuntivo” or Subjunctive in Italian is used, always, after impersonal sentence constructs. “Congiuntivo” or Subjunctive is also used for imperatives that subject or show politeness or events that describe a noun with verbs associate with politeness.

English abides by the rules to use ‘er’ at the end for representing a comparative degree and use an ‘est’ at the end to represent a superlative degree.

 Here are some examples:

Nouns, adverbs or adjectives may be joined with Suffixes. Non-accented vowels should not be used in conjunction with using suffixes. Suffixes change the meaning of the base word. Some of the most common suffixes used in Italian grammer include –ino, -icino, -ello etc. These express admiration, description, size, appreciation, etc.

“Congiuntivo” or Subjunctive add or reflect a biased attitude in the direction of the situation, circumstance or action that is described by the verb in a sentence. “Congiuntivo” or Subjunctive is used to describe an uncertain event or situation or an opinion.

“Congiuntivo” or Subjunctive, more often than not, is not at all used in the English language, as compared to Italian where “Congiuntivo” or Subjunctive is used more often.

The action of the verb is ‘transferred’ to the noun or subject, where passive sentences are concerned. As compared to active sentences, where the subject or the noun is actually performing the action described by the verb. But again, in both these cases the meaning of a sentence always remains the same, the point of view or observation changes.

In English, we make negative sentences or commands by using many forms of ‘no’. Either in the form of ‘doesn’t’ ‘didn’t’, ‘not’…etc. The same can be said for Italian except for little changes.

ESSERE AND AVERE:

essere (to be, an auxiliary)

Italian nouns are mainly classified into two : masculine and Feminine

Italian nouns have mainly 3 endings: ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘o’

Words such as film, weekend, jogging are masculine as they are borrowed from another language and have no plural form.

Infinitive

Infinitives or know as “infinitos” in Italian language, are simple forms of any verb or verbs given in the Italian dictionary. For all three conjugations there are three different “infinitos” or infinitives.

“Infinitos” or infinitives always deal within the scope of two tenses – the past tense and the present tense. Infinitives or “infinitos” for the present tense are much simpler than infinitives for the past tense.

Irregular forms in Italian Grammar

Certain adverbs and adjectives are irregular in the comparative and the superlative form.

The most common ones can be said to be :