Presente
What is happening now, habits, general truths, and plans: domani parto.
- io splendo
- tu splendi
- lui / lei splende
- noi splendiamo
- voi splendete
- loro splendono
to shine
Irregular verb, gerund splendendo.
Conjugated like prudere
Passato remoto
The passato remoto has two series: splendetti, splendette, splendettero, shown here, and splendei, splendé, splenderono, also correct but less common.
No compound tenses
This verb has no past participle in use, so it has no passato prossimo or other compound tense.
Lei, the polite you, takes the form of lui / lei: Lei parla.
Enough to talk about now, your plans, and the past.
What is happening now, habits, general truths, and plans: domani parto.
Past habits, descriptions, and what was going on.
What will happen, and a guess about now: sarà vero.
Polite requests, wishes, and hypotheses: “would …”.
Orders and advice; Lei is the polite form. The subject in parentheses is not said.
Telling someone not to do something: non plus the infinitive for tu.
What is happening right now: stare plus the gerund.
What was going on at a moment in the past: stavo plus the gerund.
After opinions, wishes, doubts, and feelings: penso che, spero che, benché.
Hypotheses with se, wishes, and the subjunctive in the past: se potessi…
Something about to happen: sto per uscire, I am about to go out.
The past of stories, history, and books. Common in speech in the South, rare in the North.