Italian Course Beginner Series 43 The Past Continuous Video Lecture - Learn

hello guys it's Klaudia here tuning in
today we cover the past continues or the
past progressive in Italian called el
pasado progressive Oh or at least this
is how I call it because I've had a look
at a few grammar books and they don't
mention it but anyway this is what it is
examples of the past continues in
English I was being a dick
sorry they were having a good time he
was doing the talking so she had to do
the doing so basically every time you
have a subject the verb to be in the
past simple and the gerund of the verb
that you want in the past continues you
have your past continues if you don't
know how to make the gerund in Italian
then I recommend you go back and what
the present continues because that's
where I explain it if you don't know
what the personal pronouns are then I
recommend you go and watch that video as
well in a nutshell these are the
personal pronouns that you need for
today the subject personal pronouns
meaning I you he she we you all and they
you to Louie lay no boy Laura we said in
the present continuous video that we do
not use the verb to be in Italian so in
English you have you subject the verb to
be and then your verb but here you have
the verb to stay or start it and then
you have the gerund of the verb that you
need in the past continuous so let's
have an example the verb to eat is
Mangere
and of course you need the verb in the
infinitive form and if you look up a
verb on the dictionary you will find it
in its infinitive form which is its
standard form now we separate the stem
which is the root of the verb from the
ending and then we understand what kind
of verb this is is the an array
type verb and edit type verb or an edit
type verb in Italian we have three types
of verbs and this is an edit type verb
how do we know
well the ending tells us we take the
stem and we place it right here now we
have the gerund of the verb to eat which
in English would be eating so man John
Doe so what we do is we pick it up and
we place it after the verb to stay
so we have our subjects the verb to stay
conjugated according to what person is
doing the action and then the gerund the
gerund never changes it's not
case-sensitive it's not gender sensitive
and it's not number sensitive so the
plurality does not matter you have the
first person plural second person plural
third person plural first person
singular second singular third person
singular it doesn't matter
there's only one single version of the
gerund let's say we want to say we were
eating
then we place it right here and we have
our sentence no estaba mo man John Doe
that's it this is how you build and make
the past continues in Italian you make
the gerund of the verb that you need and
then you have your subject and the verb
to stay in the past simple conjugated
according to what person is doing what
so in this case it's us we so we need
Stav amo stavos stavi stava stava
estábamos tabata stefano there is a
subtlety i don't know if you noticed but
i didn't pronounce the last three in the
following way Stefano Stata Stefano
but I pronounced Stefano steve80 Stefano
be careful when you pronounce the last
one it's not Stefano
but it's Stabenow so the pitch is on the
first a and not on the second a which is
strange because you would expect the
pitch to be on the second a as for the
previous two so here you go you know
everything about the past continues in
Italian hope you guys have found this
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