501 Italian Verbs

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Summary: There are better alternatives
Review: This book contains 501 verbs + 1000 which are conjugated in the same way. It doesn't indicate if a verb is regular or irregular and you don't know in which tenses an irregular verb is irregular. If you think that these limitations are OK, I think that Harrap Italian Verbs is a better choise than this book, it is pocket-sized and contains 2800 entries (> 200 is fully conjugated). The best book I have seen for verbs is "Bescherelle Les Verbes Italiens", it is written in simple french, it contains 8000 verbs and all irregular forms are indicated in red, it also contains useful grammatical notes. A normal dictionary is much more useful for verbs than 501 Italian verbs.

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Summary: Best verb conjurgator on the market.
Review: This book has everything you're looking for regarding Italian verbs. All tenses are defined and examples are given as well. Molto bene!!!

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Summary: awesome... totally awesome
Review: This book is absolutely packed with almost everything a language student could need. As it lists, there are five hundred one verbs, all arranged alphabetically throughout the book. It lists each verb in its seven simple tenses (present indicative, imperfect, past absolute, future, present conditional, present subjunctive, and imperfect subjunctive) and its seven compound tenses (present perfect, past perfect, past anterior, future perfect, past conditional, past subjunctive, and past perfect subjunctive). It has a page on pronunciation of Italian vowels and consonants, and then it goes into talking about how to conjugate the verbs. It begins with showing how to conjugate regular verbs, following this with the Italian translations of each tense's and mood's name. An example conjugation of an English verb is then shown to help illustrate what each tense means. After this comes further explanation of the verbs' tenses and moods, in which it deals with each of the fourteen given tenses. It simplifies the regular conjugation endings after this by showing what is taken away and added to each infinitive for each tense. Then finally come the five hundred one verbs, each one with at least two example sentences to help the reader understand its usage. Afterward comes a section on verbs which take a preposition, a list of phrases in Italian for dealing with everyday situation, days, months, how to count to 100, currency, weights, measures, temperatures, and clothing measurements. Lastly come two indices dealing with the verbs: first the index about irregular forms commonly found in the language, matching them with the verb from which they are inflected; then comes the index of English-Italian verbs as a cross-reference. This is an awesome choice to not be overlooked. Glancing through the book every so often will help to increase your vocabulary, and if you stick to a plan of learning so many verbs a day/week, you'll be learning them even more quickly. It's a simple and awesome book that any student or teacher would enjoy and appreciate.

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Summary: awesome... totally awesome
Review: This book is absolutely packed with almost everything a language student could need. As it lists, there are five hundred one verbs, all arranged alphabetically throughout the book. It lists each verb in its seven simple tenses (present indicative, imperfect, past absolute, future, present conditional, present subjunctive, and imperfect subjunctive) and its seven compound tenses (present perfect, past perfect, past anterior, future perfect, past conditional, past subjunctive, and past perfect subjunctive). It has a page on pronunciation of Italian vowels and consonants, and then it goes into talking about how to conjugate the verbs. It begins with showing how to conjugate regular verbs, following this with the Italian translations of each tense's and mood's name. An example conjugation of an English verb is then shown to help illustrate what each tense means. After this comes further explanation of the verbs' tenses and moods, in which it deals with each of the fourteen given tenses. It simplifies the regular conjugation endings after this by showing what is taken away and added to each infinitive for each tense. Then finally come the five hundred one verbs, each one with at least two example sentences to help the reader understand its usage. Afterward comes a section on verbs which take a preposition, a list of phrases in Italian for dealing with everyday situation, days, months, how to count to 100, currency, weights, measures, temperatures, and clothing measurements. Lastly come two indices dealing with the verbs: first the index about irregular forms commonly found in the language, matching them with the verb from which they are inflected; then comes the index of English-Italian verbs as a cross-reference. This is an awesome choice to not be overlooked. Glancing through the book every so often will help to increase your vocabulary, and if you stick to a plan of learning so many verbs a day/week, you'll be learning them even more quickly. It's a simple and awesome book that any student or teacher would enjoy and appreciate.

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Summary: Great for school language classes
Review: This book is great for any type of learning Italian. I am a college Junior and this book has helped me greatly.

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Summary: Missing accents
Review: This book leaves out accents. For examples, take the verb abitare. In the pres. ind. this verb is accented as such: Abito, Abiti, Abita, abitiAmo, abitAte, Abitano. Unlike some of the other Romance languages, typically Italian only accents words having a stress on the last syllable, e.g., società. Therefore, the authors of this book should have used some means to indicate where the stress falls in various verbs deviating from the rule that the word is stressed on the penult. This is a serious fault with this type of work!

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Summary: 501 Italian Verbs:Fully Conjugated
Review: This book was very helpful for the Beginner to Intermediate. A constant source for reference as well as for "pulling together" the thousands of idioms and related vocabulary which is helpful only if you can use the verb correctly. A basic and a must for Italian studenti! I lost my copy to my professor and had to buy another one. A great value.

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Summary: Best for Beginners
Review: This guide got me through my first year of Italian studies, with almost all of the verbs (and definitely all the tenses) I needed for basic composition and conversation. Certain verbs are missing, and the names of the tenses are in English (all students I know learn the names of the tenses in Italian; I had to read the guide in the beginning of the book to figure out what I wanted). This book worked through Beginning Italian I & II, but a more comprehensive guide is needed for Intermediate levels.

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Summary: Good reference
Review: This is a good reference in general and very handy for those irregular verbs on which I often draw a blank when conjugating. Also a good reference for brushing up on complex tenses. Great for getting over hurdles with the ever-popular congiuntivo.

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Summary: Good reference
Review: This is a good reference in general and very handy for those irregular verbs on which I often draw a blank when conjugating. Also a good reference for brushing up on complex tenses. Great for getting over hurdles with the ever-popular congiuntivo.