Italian GCSE
Verb tenses
What Verb tenses means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Verb tenses
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Reference: AQA
Italian uses the imperfect tense where English uses the past perfect continuous, and 'da' with the present tense means ongoing now while with the imperfect it means ongoing in the past.
Topics that use Verb tenses
- Prepositions (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Articulated prepositions
- Past narratives
- Prepositions
- Spatial relationships
- Temporal expressions
- Time and duration
- Verb-preposition combinations
- Grammatical contractions
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