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L'Italia è una repubblica democratica

The pluperfect in Italian is a composite (or if you want to sound fancy, a periphrastic) tense, like the passato prossimo (e.g. ho finito, 'I have finished'), so we make it by combining an auxili...

While we use the present indicative tense to talk about certainty and facts, we use the present subjunctive form after a verb or expression of emotion, opinion, desire, uncertainty or a command in the pre...

‘Imperfetto’ is used to describe actions and situations in the past, to describe something you used to do in the past and for simultaneous actions in the past. On the other hand, ‘Passato Prossimo’ is use...

The imperfetto (eg. facevo, era) is used for a continuous or repeated action or a description in the past. For example, if something happened everyday you would use the imperfetto, (eg. 'Ogni giorno mangi...