Re: Conditional Tenses in Romance Languages

Scotto Hlad wrote:
> I'm trying to develop the conditional tenses and would like to see how
> they
> are conjugated in each of them. >
> Can some of you kind souls provide me with the conditional forms in
>
> Italian
Unlike Span. Port. and I think French, which use the infinitive + imperfect
endings, Italian uses infinitive + the _preterite_ endings of avere 'to
have' (< the old Latin perfect endings)--

The infinitive (stem) vowel of -are verbs changes to e:
amare love

amer-ei
amer-esti
amer-ebbe
amer-emmo
amer-este
amer-ebbero

-ere and -ire verbs retain their stem vowel, + those endings.
There are lots of irregular forms, more I suspect than in Spanish; but as in
Spanish, if the future uses an irregular stem, so does the conditional, e.g.
dovere 'must, have to', fut. dovrò, cond. dovrei.