Italian conjugation

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Italian verbs have a high degree of inflection, the majority of which follows one of three common patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns of conjugation) are distinguished by the endings of the infinitive form of the verb: 1st conjugation: -are (amare "to love", parlare "to talk, to speak"); 2nd conjugation: -ere (crédere "to believe", ricévere "to receive", vedére "to see"); -arre, -orre and -urre are considered part of the 2nd conjugation, as they are derived from Latin -ere but had lost their internal e after the suffix fused to the stem's vowel (a, o and u); 3rd conjugation: -ire (dormìre "to sleep"); 3rd conjugation -ire with infixed -isc- (finìre "to end, to finish"). Additionally, Italian has a number of verbs that do not follow predictable patterns in all conjugation classes, most markedly the present and the absolute past. Often classified together as irregular...

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