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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 hours agohas way less verb tenses
Wouldst I have been having an origin and thus a learning experience that might have been comparable to yours, I expect I should will agree with you. But having not had had my way into English from the same vantage point, I am going to have to go ahead and will have disagreed with you, in that in my view tenses in English are son of a fucking bitch.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 hours ago
Look at Italian and you’ll be thankful that English verbs are so easy.
This is the conjugation of “to be” in Italian. You need to learn all those tenses also for “to have” and for 3 different categories of verbs called “-are”, “-ere”, “-ire” (almost 4, in reality, because many “-ere” verbs are irregular).
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The number of conjugations is impressive, mostly because of the genders and the plural forms. But regarding the tenses themselves, half of them are formed by adding ‘stato’ to the other kind. Meanwhile English has twelve basic tenses without getting into the subjunctive, conditional and imperative moods (congiuntivo, condizionale and imperativo). The full tense–aspect–mood system greatly complicates things.