The Past Participle of Italian Verbs


 

The past participle (participio passato) in Italian is an important verb form, mainly used in compound tenses, such as the present perfect (passato prossimo), and in passive voice constructions.
It's equivalent to the English past participle forms like “eaten”, “gone”, or “spoken”.


Building the Past Participle of Italian verbs

With regular Italian verbs, the past participle is formed by adding the past participle suffixes “-ato” (with verbs ending in “-are”), “-uto” (with verbs ending in “-ere”) and “-ito” (with verbs ending in “-ire”) to the verb stem.

Infinitive Past participle
andare (to go) andato (gone)
vendere (to sell) venduto (sold)
partire (to depart) partito (departed)
 

Italian verbs with irregular past participle

There are some verbs in Italian that form the past participle in an irregular way.
Please, learn them by heart!

Italian verbs with an irregular past participle
dire (to say) detto (said)
essere (to be) stato (been)
fare (to make) fatto (made)
leggere (to read) letto (read)
rispondere (to answer) risposto (answered)
scribere (to write) scritto (written)
vedere (to see) visto (saw)
vincere (to win) vinto (won)
 

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