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Living in Italy. News in slow Italian. Making comparisons. Not a member yet? Passato remoto: Italian grammar lesson. To practice this grammar topic, take Lesson of Ripeti Con Me! Italian grammar lessons C1 Advanced Stefano. Steal my secrets. Passato remoto: what is it? It is used for events that happened in the distant past. Passato remoto: conjugations Just like other verb conjugations in Italian, the regular verbs have specific endings.
Note that many regular -ere verbs have an alternative form in the first-person singular, third-person singular, and third-person plural forms. Dante took refuge in Ravenna. Petrarca died in Michelangelo nacque nel Michelangelo was born in Albert Einstein fu un uomo di grande saggezza. They had such luck that they also won the first prize of the National Lottery!
Giulia ebbe il coraggio di donare un rene a sua sorella. Giulia had the courage to donate a kidney to her sister. Con pochi soldi fecero un matrimonio bellissimo. They set up a beautiful wedding with little money. I had opened the box. I had cut the thread. The second simply says that they happened. This is the primary difference between the simple past and the perfect past in general. In a novel, if you have setup, setup, setup, action, action, action, then the setup is imperfetto and the action is passato remoto.
I would love to hear confirmation from a native speaker, though. Theory is one thing, but native speakers are the real test. Just out of curiosity, itastudent, where in Italy are you from?
A friend of mine from Rome used the passato remoto like you describe when I talked to him, i. A couple of months ago I had a conversation with an older man from somewhere in the deep south I'm not sure exactly where, unfortunately , though, and he used primarily the passato remoto, even for relatively recent events, more like the use of the preterit in Spanish. I guess I'm just wondering where it is that the passato remoto is used in that way, since I've always just heard "the south," but it's clearly not the whole south, since I have friends from Puglia who also mostly use the passato prossimo and I know there are also pockets of Tuscany where they use it, so maybe it's not even necessarily a north vs.
I'm from Naples. Anyway, as I said, it's possible that people use it even while talking about recent events. I guess it depends on how close or far to them they feel those events. Can't really say so much about the geographic location of the people, since when I talk to people I don't pay attention to which tense they use. I don't anyway think passato remoto is as frequent as preterit in Spanish or simple past in English. But is it really about how far away the events are, or is it just that you use it when you're telling a story?
The fact that you're telling a story automatically makes the events seem unconnected to the present, of course. I was actually thinking about the same, but sometimes for stories about facts that happened to me recently I could anyway prefer to use the passato prossimo, so it anyway depends. Also, I don't need to tell a whole story to decide to use the passato remoto. I can use that even just to make a question related to something about the past. Yeah, I agree that it's not usually used anywhere near as often as the preterit in Spanish, which is why I was surprised when that guy used it that often.
I wish I would have asked where he was from. I'm just curious about that kind of thing. Maybe you'll start picking up on when people use the passato remoto now! I know that working with a lot of non-native speakers of English has made me pay more attention to things in my own language that I never would have given a second thought before.
That's interesting because my uncle is from Formia, and his wife is from Naples and they never use passato remoto. Anche, io ho parlato con gente del sud, come di Bari, e usano il passato prossimo e anche il passato remote. Ti auguro una buona giornata! Country Home - Restored in Chianti. Country Home - Restored in Cortona. Apartment in Spoleto. Fractional ownership in Borgo San Lorenzo. Emilia Romagna. Language Schools. Il Sasso Italian Language School.
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