Conversational Italian, Lesson 6

Intransitive infinitive

Italian intransitive verbs are not easy to learn because so muchdepends on who or what Me subject is. The subject controls t predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. Nouns and adjectives that follow essere to be are called predicate nouns or adjectives; these inflect to agree with the subject of the verb.

Intransitive verb, unlike transitive verbs, do not have objects. Theiractions remain with the subjects. For example, in the sentence, I goto the store. The verb to go functions as an intransitive verbbecause no action is transferred from the subject i to the objectstore.

Below are Conjugations for common transitive infinitives

to come venire.
Singular I come veniro
Singular You come veniri
Singular He/She/It come venira
Plular We come veniramo
Plular you come venirate
Plular They come venirano