Hello everyone welcome back!
The topic we are talking about today is a very useful topic both
for those just starting to study the Italian language and for the more experienced.
Let's see the verb to be and the verb to have, and all their functions.
Let's immediately see the conjugation of these two verbs in the present indicative,
especially useful for beginners.
The verb to be and the verb to have are two irregular verbs and have an anomalous
conjugation compared to the other verbs, which is why it is very important to memorize them.
Let's see the conjugation of the verb to be in the present indicative.
I am, you are, he / she is, we are, you are, they are.
Now it's up to the verb to have.
I have, you have, he / she has, we have, you have, they have.
Now let's see in detail all their possible uses.
Let's start with the verb to be.
The verb to be can be used as an auxiliary, which means "help", that is ,
it helps in the formation of compound tenses, it is indispensable for forming these tenses.
For example, if I say "Yesterday I went to the mountains",
here the verb to be is essential to form the perfect past tense: I went.
The verb to be can be used as a copulative,
that is, it has no meaning of its own, but connects the subject to a noun or an adjective.
For example, in the sentence "That boy is Michele",
the verb to be connects the subject "that boy" to the name "Michele".
The same happens in the phrase "Venice is beautiful".
In this case the verb to be connects "Venice", the subject, to the adjective beautiful.
Finally, the verb to be can be used in place of the verbs to find and to happen.
"Last week I was at my house" means that I was at my house.
"What's up?" means "What happens?", so the
verb to be is used instead of the verb to happen.
We come to the verb to have, three functions here too.
The first is always that of auxiliary, identical to the first function of the verb to be.
For this reason the verbs to be and to have are called auxiliary verbs.
As I said before, it
means that they are indispensable in the formation of compound tenses.
"What you did is wonderful."
So we see that the verb to have helps in the formation of the perfect past tense: you have done.
The second function is that of the verb to have in the meaning of possessing.
"Marco has a beautiful house", "Antonio is 5 years old".
Finally, the verb to have can indicate a sensation that one feels: "What have you got?".
"I don't feel well, I have a severe stomach ache."
As usual I hope you found this video useful,
thank you very much for watching and see you in the next lesson.