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There are four simple tenses: the present, past, future, and conditional. | There are four simple tenses: the present, past, future, and conditional. | ||
* The present tense can be formed from the infinitive by removing the final ''-r''. It covers the simple and continuous present tenses in English. The verbs ''esser'' 'to be', ''haber'' 'to have', and ''vader'' 'to go' normally take the short forms ''es, ha,'' and ''va'' rather than ''esse, habe,'' and ''vade''. | * The present tense can be formed from the infinitive by removing the final ''-r''. It covers the simple and continuous present tenses in English. The verbs ''esser'' 'to be', ''haber'' 'to have', and ''{{C|vader}}'' 'to go' normally take the short forms ''es, ha,'' and ''va'' rather than ''esse, habe,'' and ''vade''. | ||
:: ''Io ama mangos; io mangia un justo ora.'' 'I love mangoes; I'm eating one right now.' | :: ''Io ama mangos; io mangia un justo ora.'' 'I love mangoes; I'm eating one right now.' | ||