Lesson 6 - Avere and the Present Perfect of -ARE Verbs

Welcome to the sixth lesson of my Italian grammar course! In this lesson we'll be learning Avere (To Have), how to form past participles, and how to use them together to form the Present Perfect tense!
This channel is not intended to be a comprehensive course of all aspects of the Italian language. Rather, it's a supplement to self-study that will help you understand some of the more complicated grammar principles that are hard to learn on your own.
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Opening music credits: Aumm' Aumm', by Renzo Arbore. If you like Napoletano (Neapolitan) music, check him out! Napoletano is a sister language to Italian, spoken in the Campagna region of southern Italy.

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A few years late, but in case anyone's interested, the reason the past tense is called 'present' perfect is because the auxiliary verb is conjugated in the present (e.g., "I have sung" / "ho cantato" / "j'ai chanté"). I don't know the exact details, but the 'perfect' has something to do with using an auxiliary and a past participle. There's also 'past perfect,' where the auxiliary is conjugated in the past (e.g. "I had sung" / "avevo cantato" / j'avais chanté").