The Italian Principia - Part I. A First Italian Course

CONTENTS.

I. THE ALPHABET. PARTS OF SPEECH - page 1

II. PRONUNCIATION - page 2

III. THE ARTICLE - page 3

IV. THE SUBSTANTIVE - page 5

1. FORMATION OF THE PLURAL - page 5
2. FORMATION OF THE GENITIVE - page 9
3. FORMATION OF THE DATIVE - page 10
4. FORMATION OF THE ABLATIVE - page 11

V. THE PARTITIVE ARTICLE - page 14

VI. PROPER NAMES - page 15

VII. THE VERB AVERE - page 16

VIlI. THE VERB ESSERE - page 22

IX. THE ADJECTIVE - page 27

1. QUALIFICATIVE ADJECTIVES - page 27
2. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES - page 37
3. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES - page 38
4. INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES - page 39
5. NUMERAL ADJECTIVES - page 40
6. INDEFINITE ADJECTIVES - page 45

X. THE VERB - page 47

XI. FIRST CONJUGATION - page 49

XII. SECOND CONJUGATION - page 51

XIII. THIRD CONJUGATION - page 54

XIV. AFFINITIES OF THE ITALIAN AND LATIN VERBS - page 57

XV. PECULIARITIES OF SOME VERBS OF THE FIRST CONJUGATION - page 58

XVI. PECULIARITIES OF SOME VERBS OF THE SECOND CONJUGATION - page 61

XVII. PECULIARITIES OF SOME VERBS OF THE THIRD CONJUGATION - page 65

XVIII. COMPLEMENTS OF VERBS - page 69

XIX. THE PRONOUN - page 75

A. PERSONAL PRONOUNS - page 75

B. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS - page 84

C. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS - page 87

D. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS - page 87

E. RELATIVE PRONOUNS - page 89

F. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS - page 91

XX. PASSIVE VERBS - page 92

XXI. NEUTER VERBS - page 98

XXII. REFLECTIVE VERBS - page 101

XXIII. IMPERSONAL VERBS - page 108

XXIV. ADVERBS - page 112

A. ADVERBS Of TIME - page 114

B. ADVERBS OF PLACE - page 115

C. ADVERBS OF MANNER - page 116

D. ADVERBS OF QUANTITY - page 117

E. ADVERBS OF AFFIRMATION - page 118

F. ADVERBS OF NEGATION - page 118

G. ADVERBS OF DOUBT - page 120

H. ADVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS - page 121

XXV. PREPOSITIONS - page 123

A. PREPOSITIONS GOVERNING THE GENITIVE - page 123

B. PREPOSITIONS GOVERNING THE DATIVE - page 124

C. PREPOSITIONS GOVERNING THE ACCUSATIVE - page 125

D. PREPOSITIONS GOVERNING THE ABLATIVE - page 125

XXVI. CONJUNCTIONS - page 126

A. COPULATIVE CONJUNCTIONS - page 126

B. DISJUNCTIVE CONJUNCTIONS - page 127

XXVII. INTERJECTIONS - page 128

XXVIII. IRREGULAR VERBS - page 130

THE FIRST CLASS - page 130

VERBS IRREGULAR IN THE PAST DEFINITE AND PAST PARTICIPLE - page 131

THE SECOND CLASS - page 139

A. VERBS IRREGULAR IN THE PAST PARTICIPLE ONLY - page 139

B. VERBS IRREGULAR IN DIFFERENT TENSES - page 141

THE THIRD CLASS - page 164

DEFECTIVE VERBS - page 164

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS - page 169

Vocabularies - page 179

INDEX I.- ITALIAN WORDS - page 204

INDEX lI.- ENGLISH WORDS - page 213