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The ire Verb Family
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Linfinito

• Linfinito means the infinitive in Italian. It
  looks like this mangiare, ballare, spendere. It
  doesnt tell us who is doing that action.
• We know that we have to change the ending of the
  infinitive when we want to be specific in a
  sentence. We know how to change are verbs and
  ere verbs. Now lets look at ire verbs!

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Ripasso altri verbi

• Lets review our other verb endings first
• What are the endings for are verbs?
• -o -iamo
• -i -ate
• -a -ano

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Ripasso altri verbi

• Lets review our other verb family
• What are the endings for ere verbs?
• -o -iamo
• -i -ete
• -e -ono

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Verbi -ire

• What are the ire endings?
• -o iamo
• -i ite
• -e -ono
• What do you notice about ire and ere endings?

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Paragoniamo (Lets compare!)

• Vediamo (Lets see)
• -ere vs. -ire
• -o -iamo -o iamo
• -i -ete -i ite
• -e -ono -e -ono

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Sono simili! (Theyre similar!)

• -ere and ire endings are almost all the same
  EXCEPT in the voi form.
• ere verbs have ete
• ire verbs have ite

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Esempi

• Dormire to sleep
• Aprire to open
• Offrire to offer
• Partire to leave, to depart
• Seguire to follow
• Sentire to hear
• Servire to serve

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Not so fast!

• Some ire verbs add an isc before the ending we
  are used to adding on.
• For example pulisco, pulisce, finisco, finisci,
  capisci, preferiscono

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-isc with -ire

• These are sometimes called boot verbs because
  the isc is added into all the forms except noi
  and voi.
• Esempio capire to understand
• Capisco Capiamo
• Capisci Capite
• Capisce Capiscono

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-isc

• If you draw a line around the verb conjugations
  that add the isc, you will see a boot!
• Vediamo (Lets see) finire to finish
• Finisco Finiamo
• Finisci Finite
• Finisce Finiscono

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Which ire verbs get isc?

• The ire verb family is weird. Some ire verbs
  get isc added into them, and others dont. How
  do we know when to do that?
• Give them the 5 letter test!

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5 letter test

• Look at the ire verb in its infinitive form.
  Lets take pulire to clean.
• Start at the END of the word, on the e. Count
  back 5 letters. Do we land on a vowel?
• 1e , 2r, 3i, 4l, 5u
• YES!

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5 letter test

• Since we landed on a vowel, we know to add in
  isc for all our forms EXCEPT noi and voi.
• Pulisco Puliamo
• Pulisci Pulite
• Pulisce Puliscono
• We still have to add our normal endings, too!

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5 letter test

• Lets try another one dormire.
• 1e, 2r, 3i, 4m, 5r
• I didnt land on a vowel, so this is regular.
• Dormo Dormiamo
• Dormi Dormite
• Dorme Dormono

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Esempi

• -isc verbs from the ire family
• Capire to understand
• Finire to finish
• Pulire to clean
• Preferire to prefer

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2 modi (2 ways)

• So, we can say that there are 2 ways to conjugate
  ire verbs.
• 1.) Regularly, like dormire (dormo, dormi)
• 2.) Irregularly, when you add in the
• isc, like capire (capisco, capisci)