Free Italian Verb Conjugation Quiz
Practice Italian verb conjugation online, one form at a time, in any of 15 tenses, from the presente (io parlo) and the passato prossimo (io ho parlato) to the congiuntivo (che io parli). Pick the tenses and the verbs, type each form and press Enter, and the quiz marks it right or wrong at once, accents included. Keep going as long as you like, then retry only the forms you missed. It's free, needs no signup and works on a phone.
Untick a box to leave those verbs out. A verb is in the quiz when it matches a ticked box in each column. A column with nothing ticked keeps all its verbs.
How the Italian conjugation quiz works
You set it up in two steps. First tick the tenses you want, from the same 15 as the worksheets. None are ticked when the page opens, and “Tick all” ticks every one. Each tense shows an example in plain English, such as “io ho parlato · I spoke, I have spoken” for the passato prossimo, so you can choose without knowing the grammar names. Then narrow the verbs, or leave every box empty for all 600. The first group sorts them by how the verb changes: regular (parlare → parlo, credere → credo), regular with -isc- (capire → capisco), a spelling change only (cercare → cerchi, mangiare → mangi) or irregular (fare → faccio, andare → vado). The second sorts them by ending, -are, -ere or -ire, with porre and tradurre among the -ere verbs. The third picks out verbs that take essere in the passato prossimo (sono andato), verbs with an irregular past participle (fatto, preso), verbs always used with si (mi pento), or “None of these”. Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other. A group with nothing ticked keeps all its verbs. Tick Irregular and essere together, and you get the irregular verbs that take essere.
Press “Start the quiz” and it asks for one form at a time, such as “noi · andare · present perfect”, with the English meaning underneath. Type the form and press Enter, or Check. It's marked at once, and a wrong answer shows the correct form. A running count of right and wrong answers, with a percentage, stays on screen. There is no fixed length. Every question comes up once before any repeats, in a new random order each pass, so you can't learn the answers by their order. “Stop and see my score” gives your score and a list of the forms you missed, and “Practice my mistakes” drills just those. The quiz remembers your verb ticks on this device, but not the tenses.
Accents and apostrophes count, capital letters don't
Type “parlo” when the answer is “parlò” and the quiz marks it wrong, with the note “Almost: check the accents and apostrophes” and the right answer. That's fair, because parlo means “I speak” and parlò means “he or she spoke”. The quiz writes an accent only where Italian spelling does, as in parlò, poté and è. The short tu commands fa', da', di', sta' and va' take an apostrophe, and “fa” without it gets the same “Almost” note. The long forms fai, dai, stai and vai count too. You don't need an Italian keyboard. Buttons on screen type à, è, é, ì, ò and ù, on a laptop or a phone. Capital letters don't matter, and neither does the subject pronoun: io parlo and parlo both count. Weather verbs such as piove and nevica take no pronoun at all.
Passato prossimo with avere or essere
The perfect tenses are asked in full, with the auxiliary: ho parlato, sono andato. Every verb takes the auxiliary of standard Italian. Of the 600 verbs, 102 take essere in the passato prossimo, and 29 of those can take either auxiliary, as passare does: sono passato/a or ho passato. The quiz takes either one for those verbs. With essere the participle agrees with the subject. Sono andato and sono andata are both right, and so are siamo andati and siamo andate. With lui or lei the ending must match: lui è andato and lei è andata are right, lui è andata is not. Lei may also take andato, because formal Lei can be a man. Where a verb has two past participles, both count: ho perso and ho perduto. Reflexive verbs keep their pronoun, as in mi pento, and 13 verbs in the list are always used with si. Tick the passato prossimo and “Irregular past participle”, and you get a drill on all 146 verbs with a participle like fatto or preso.
The 15 tenses, commands and the congiuntivo
All 15 tenses are available, in four groups. The indicative has the present (io parlo), imperfect (io parlavo), past historic (io parlai, mostly in writing), future (io parlerò) and present conditional (io parlerei). The perfect tenses are the passato prossimo or present perfect (io ho parlato), pluperfect (io avevo parlato), future perfect (io avrò parlato) and past conditional (io avrei parlato). The congiuntivo has the present (che io parli), imperfect (se io parlassi), past (che io abbia parlato) and pluperfect (se io avessi parlato). You may type che before it (che io parli, che parli), and se before the imperfect and the pluperfect (se io parlassi). The imperative has affirmative and negative commands, and neither has an io form. The lui/lei/Lei and loro lines ask for the formal Lei and Loro commands, such as vada and vadano (go). The negative command is non parlare for tu and non parli for Lei, and you may leave out the non. With a si verb both standard orders count: non alzarti and non ti alzare.
How accurate are the forms?
The quiz uses the same tables as the worksheets. The forms come from Wiktionary, and we checked every simple form of all 600 verbs, 29,886 table cells in all, against the verbecc conjugator and Morph-it!, a lexicon of Italian word forms. Wiktionary marks the stress on every word, but the quiz uses standard spelling, with an accent only where Italian writes one: parlò, poté, è. The worksheet page gives the full results. There is one limit. Literary and regional forms, such as debbo beside devo, are left out, so a form from an older book may be marked wrong.
A quiz for you, a worksheet for the class
The quiz is made for one person at a keyboard or a phone, checking answers as they go. For Italian conjugation practice before a test, tick only the tenses it covers, such as the passato prossimo (ho parlato) and the imperfetto (parlavo), and finish each run with “Practice my mistakes”. For a class, the same verbs and tenses print as Italian verb conjugation worksheets: fill-in boxes, a printed quick quiz and a verb chart, with answer keys on separate pages. To look up one verb, every form of all 600 is in the Italian verb conjugation tables. And if you learn Spanish or German too, the Spanish and German verb conjugation quizzes work the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Italian conjugation quiz free?
Yes. There is no account, no email address and no limit on how long you practice. It works in the browser on a computer or a phone, and the full verb tables load only when you start a quiz.
Which tenses can I practice?
Fifteen. In the indicative: present (presente), imperfect (imperfetto), past historic (passato remoto), future (futuro semplice) and present conditional (condizionale presente). The perfect tenses: present perfect (passato prossimo), pluperfect (trapassato prossimo), future perfect (futuro anteriore) and past conditional (condizionale passato). In the subjunctive (congiuntivo): present, imperfect, past and pluperfect. In the imperative: affirmative and negative commands. Each one has an example on the setup screen, such as "se io parlassi · if I spoke" for the imperfect subjunctive.
Which verbs are in the quiz?
All 600 verbs from the worksheets, unless you tick boxes to narrow them: regular, -isc-, spelling-change or irregular verbs, -are, -ere or -ire verbs, or verbs that take essere, have an irregular past participle or are always used with si. Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other, so Irregular and -ere together give the irregular -ere verbs, essere and avere among them.
Do accents count?
Yes. "parlo" for "parlò" is marked wrong, with a note to check the accents and apostrophes. On-screen buttons type à, è, é, ì, ò and ù, so you don't need an Italian keyboard. Capital letters don't count.
Do I have to type io, tu and the other pronouns?
No. Io parlo and parlo are both marked right, and che before the congiuntivo (or se before its imperfect and pluperfect) is optional too. Weather verbs such as piove take no pronoun. Reflexive pronouns are different: they are part of the form, so the answer is mi pento, not pento.
Sono andato or sono andata?
Both are right, because io doesn't show a gender, and so are siamo andati and siamo andate. With lui the answer is è andato, and with lei it's è andata, or è andato for a man addressed as formal Lei. Where a verb has two past participles, both count: ho perso and ho perduto.
What if I don't know the names of the tenses?
You don't need them. Every tense and verb type on the setup screen has a plain-English example under it, such as "io ho parlato · I spoke, I have spoken" for the passato prossimo or "capire → capisco, finire → finisco" for the -isc- verbs. You can pick by what the forms look like and learn the names later.
Can I practice only the forms I got wrong?
Yes. Press "Stop and see my score" for your score and a list of the forms you missed, then "Practice my mistakes" to go through just those again.
Licenses and credits
Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). Verbs are ranked by Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).