Learn how to form the futuro anteriore ("future perfect") tense of Italian verbs
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Consuelo: Ciao. Buongiorno a tutti. |
| Marco: Marco here. Upper intermediate, season 1, Lesson #11. I Will Only Forgive You After You Will Have Told Me Everything in Italian. |
| Consuelo: Hello everyone. I am Consuelo and welcome to italianpod101.com |
| Marco: With us, you will learn to speak Italian with fun and effective lessons. |
| Consuelo: We also provide you with cultural insights |
| Marco: And tips you won’t find in a textbook. In today’s class, we will focus on the futur anterieur, the future perfect. |
| Consuelo: This conversation takes place at the park. |
| Marco: And it’s between Mirco and Irene. |
| Consuelo: They will be speaking informal Italian. |
| Marco: Let’s listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Mirco: Sai, non vengo spesso al parco, non ho mai tempo. |
| Irene: A me piace venire qui, a volte porto pure i libri e mi metto a studiare. |
| Mirco: Già, tu studi dappertutto!! |
| Irene: Ah ah, non è vero, ma piuttosto, dimmi, perché non ti sei fatto vedere sabato scorso? Ho fatto qualcosa..? |
| Mirco: Cosa? Tu? Assolutamente no, se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai, ma la partita è finita tardi e siamo andati a cena con la squadra. Ecco perché ho chiamato Filippo. |
| Irene: Davvero? Filippo mi ha detto che... |
| Mirco: Cosa ti ha detto? |
| Irene: No niente. |
| Mirco: Dai, dimmi cosa ti ha detto! |
| Irene: Non ha importanza non me lo chiedere più! |
| Mirco: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto! |
| Irene: Andiamo su quella panchina...! |
| Marco: Let’s here it slowly now. |
| Mirco: Sai, non vengo spesso al parco, non ho mai tempo. |
| Irene: A me piace venire qui, a volte porto pure i libri e mi metto a studiare. |
| Mirco: Già, tu studi dappertutto!! |
| Irene: Ah ah, non è vero, ma piuttosto, dimmi, perché non ti sei fatto vedere sabato scorso? Ho fatto qualcosa..? |
| Mirco: Cosa? Tu? Assolutamente no, se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai, ma la partita è finita tardi e siamo andati a cena con la squadra. Ecco perché ho chiamato Filippo. |
| Irene: Davvero? Filippo mi ha detto che... |
| Mirco: Cosa ti ha detto? |
| Irene: No niente. |
| Mirco: Dai, dimmi cosa ti ha detto! |
| Irene: Non ha importanza non me lo chiedere più! |
| Mirco: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto! |
| Irene: Andiamo su quella panchina...! |
| Marco: And now, with the translation. |
| Mirco: Sai, non vengo spesso al parco, non ho mai tempo. |
| Mirco: You know, I don't come often to the park. I never have time. |
| Irene: A me piace venire qui, a volte porto pure i libri e mi metto a studiare. |
| Irene: I like coming here; sometimes I bring books and start studying. |
| Mirco: Già, tu studi dappertutto!! |
| Mirco: Right, you study everywhere! |
| Irene: Ah ah, non è vero, ma piuttosto, dimmi, perché non ti sei fatto vedere sabato scorso? Ho fatto qualcosa..? |
| Irene: Ah ah, it's not true. But I'd rather you tell me why you didn't show up last Saturday. Did I do something...? |
| Mirco: Cosa? Tu? Assolutamente no, se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai, ma la partita è finita tardi e siamo andati a cena con la squadra. Ecco perché ho chiamato Filippo. |
| Mirco: What? You? Absolutely not; if I have the chance to see you I never miss it, but the match finished late and we had dinner with the team. That's why I called Filippo. |
| Irene: Davvero? Filippo mi ha detto che... |
| Irene: Really? Filippo told me that... |
| Mirco: Cosa ti ha detto? |
| Mirco: What did he tell you? |
| Irene: No niente. |
| Irene: Oh, nothing. |
| Mirco: Dai, dimmi cosa ti ha detto! |
| Mirco: Come on! Tell me what he said! |
| Irene: Non ha importanza non me lo chiedere più! |
| Irene: It doesn't matter. Don't ask me anymore! |
| Mirco: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto! |
| Mirco: I won't ask you anymore only after you'll have told me! |
| Irene: Andiamo su quella panchina...! |
| Irene: Let's go to that bench...! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Marco: Hey Consuelo, what’s going on here? |
| Consuelo: Irene and Mirco cleared things up, I guess. |
| Marco: It is obvious that there is something between them. |
| Consuelo: Yes Mirco said “se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai”. |
| Marco: If I had the chance to see you, I never miss it. |
| Consuelo: So their friend Filippo made them have this sort of misunderstanding. |
| Marco: Yes I remember. |
| Consuelo: We will see what happens. |
| Marco: What is Mirco’s team? I mean what sport do you think it is? |
| Consuelo: I am pretty sure it’s soccer. |
| Marco: Calcio. |
| Consuelo: Having dinner with a team after a match reminds me of my Italian friends who played soccer. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Marco: Ah I see. Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is |
| Consuelo: Parco. |
| Marco: Park. |
| Consuelo: Parco. Parco |
| Marco: And next we have |
| Consuelo: Libro. |
| Marco: Book. |
| Consuelo: Libro. Libro |
| Marco: The next word is |
| Consuelo: Dappertutto. |
| Marco: Everywhere. |
| Consuelo: Dappertutto. Dappertutto. |
| Marco: And the next word is |
| Consuelo: Assolutamente. |
| Marco: Absolutely. |
| Consuelo: Assolutamente. Assolutamente |
| Marco: And next we have |
| Consuelo: Mancare. |
| Marco: To be lacking, missing. |
| Consuelo: Mancare. Mancare. |
| Marco: And the next word is |
| Consuelo: Squadra. |
| Marco: Team. |
| Consuelo: Squadra. Squadra |
| Marco: And the next word is |
| Consuelo: Importanza. |
| Marco: Importance. |
| Consuelo: Importanza. Importanza |
| Marco: And today’s last word is |
| Consuelo: Panchina. |
| Marco: Bench. |
| Consuelo: Panchina. Panchina |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Marco: So Consuelo, what expression are we studying today? |
| Consuelo: The Italian expression “mettersi a”. |
| Marco: To start to. |
| Consuelo: This is a very common and useful expression. |
| Marco: Literally it means to put oneself into something but it is translated as to start to do something. |
| Consuelo: Let’s look at some practical examples. |
| Marco: I have heard this expression many times combined with dieta, meaning diet. |
| Consuelo: Bravo Marco. Mettersi a dieta. |
| Marco: To start the diet. |
| Consuelo: Da domani mi metto a dieta. |
| Marco: From tomorrow, I start the diet. Is that true? |
| Consuelo: Absolutely not. Let’s go on with our examples now. This is nice. Se non la smetti mi metto a urlare. |
| Marco: If you don’t stop, I will start screaming. |
| Consuelo: As you can see, mettersi a can be followed by a noun or a verb at the infinitive form. |
| Marco: Okay so one last example. |
| Consuelo: Questo film è commovente. Ora mi metto a piangere. |
| Marco: This movie is moving. Now I will start crying. No Consuelo, non piangere. |
Lesson focus |
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| Consuelo: Let’s take a look at today’s grammar point. |
| Marco: In today’s lesson, we focused on the futuro anteriore. |
| Consuelo: The future perfect. |
| Marco: When should we employ the futuro anteriore? |
| Consuelo: As in English, it is different from the simple future, futuro semplice, since it is used to express a future action that is completed before another future action. |
| Marco: In other words, this action will be over and done with before another future event occurs. |
| Consuelo: If we take a look at the meaning of the word anteriore in Italian, it is easier to understand whether to employ this tense. |
| Marco: Anteriore stands for previous or earlier. |
| Consuelo: Consequently, futuro anteriore is used to report a future event that will happen earlier than in other one that is expressed through futuro semplice. |
| Marco: We talked about its usage. Now let’s see how to conjugate a verb at futuro anteriore . |
| Consuelo: The futuro anteriore is a compound tense formed with futuro semplice of the auxiliary verb essere or avere plus the past participle of the main verb. |
| Marco: In the dialogue, we heard Mirco saying: |
| Consuelo: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto. |
| Marco: I won’t ask you anymore only after you have told me. |
| Consuelo: Now in English, in the same situation, we use the simple present and the future. |
| Marco: So remember that in Italian, it’s better to use futuro anteriore. Listen carefully to the following statements. |
| Consuelo: Quando avrai finito di lavorare andremo a cena fuori? |
| Marco: When you will have finished working, will we go out for dinner? |
| Consuelo: Partirò per la Svezia solo quando avrò trovato un lavoro. |
| Marco: I will leave for Sweden only when I will have found a job. |
| Consuelo: So the verbs at futur anterieur were avrai finito and avrò trovato. |
| Marco: Now let’s listen to the conjugation for all the six persons of the verb dire, meaning to say. |
| Consuelo: Io avrò detto |
| Marco: I will have said. |
| Consuelo: Tu avrai detto |
| Marco: You will have said. |
| Consuelo: Lui/lei avrà detto |
| Marco: He/She/It will have said. |
| Consuelo: Noi avremmo detto |
| Marco: We will have said. |
| Consuelo: Voi avrete detto |
| Marco: You will have said. |
| Consuelo: Loro avranno detto |
| Marco: They will have said. |
| Consuelo: The futuro anteriore has an additional employment. |
| Marco: It is used also when expressing doubts and conjectures. |
| Consuelo: But we will see this different employment in detail during the next lesson. |
Outro |
| Marco: That just about does it for today. Listeners, do you know the reason flashcards are so popular. |
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| Consuelo: Ciao, alla prossima lezione. |
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