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Italian simple present tense: -IRE verbs
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Regular
 –IRE
 verb
 endings:

io

tu

voi

lui/lei/Lei

Normal
 vs.
 –ISC-­‐

Some
 verbs
 take
 -­‐ISC-­‐
 in
 between
 the
 stem
 and
 the

verb
 endings
 for
 all
 subjects
 except
 noi
 and
 voi.

(See
 how
 the
 subjects
 that
 take
 -­‐ISC-­‐
 are
 inside
 the

little
 green
 “boot”?)

noi

loro

io

noi

tu

voi

lui/lei/Lei

loro

There’s
 no
 trick
 to
 knowing
 which
 verbs
 take
 -­‐ISC-­‐

and
 which
 do
 not—
 it
 must
 just
 be
 memorized.

Some
 regular
 (in
 the
 present)
 –IRE
 verbs:

(verbs
 that
 take
 -­‐ISC-­‐
 marked
 with
 asterisks*)

io

noi

tu

voi

lui/lei/Lei

loro

io

noi

tu

voi

lui/lei/Lei

loro

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