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Focused pieces on Italian conjugation. No listicles about pizza vocabulary, just the mechanics that trip English speakers up, with examples pulled from the same verb database the app uses.
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Which -ire verbs take -isc-, and why nobody can tell you a rule
Capire gives capisco, dormire gives dormo. No rule predicts which -ire verbs insert -isc-, but there is a pattern to where it lands.
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Avere or essere: how to pick the right Italian auxiliary every time
The Italian auxiliary choice isn't arbitrary. Here's the rule, the list that matters, and the verbs where both auxiliaries are correct.