Italian -ire verbs

210 verbs in this group

The third conjugation splits in two, and nothing in the infinitive tells you which half a verb belongs to. Dormire conjugates as dormo, dormi, dorme. Finire inserts -isc- and gives finisco, finisci, finisce.

The insert appears in exactly four forms (the three singular persons and the third-person plural) and only in the presente, the congiuntivo presente and the imperativo. In every other tense the two patterns are identical.

Roughly two thirds of -ire verbs take -isc-, which makes it the majority pattern rather than the exception. Every -ire verb page on this site flags which one it follows.

The 150 most common italian -ire verbs

Ordered by how often they appear in real Italian, so the ones worth learning first are at the top. Every entry links to its full conjugation in all 15 tenses.

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Italian -ire verbs

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