Free Italian Verb Conjugation Worksheets

How the Italian conjugation worksheet generator works

Start with the verbs. The list holds 600 Italian verbs, ranked by how often they occur in film and TV subtitles, plus everyday verbs a beginner needs that subtitles underrate, such as telefonare, prenotare and nevicare. Each verb has its English meaning, and you can search the list in Italian or English. Filters narrow it to regular verbs, -isc- verbs such as capire and finire, verbs with a spelling change such as cercare and mangiare, irregular verbs, verbs with an irregular past participle, -are, -ere or -ire verbs, verbs that form the passato prossimo with essere, or verbs always used with si. A live count shows how many verbs match. A worksheet holds up to 30 verbs, in the order you click them. Then tick the tenses you want, and choose the kind of sheet on the preview.

Fill-in boxes, a quick quiz or a verb chart

The fill-in worksheet gives every verb one box for each tense, twelve boxes to a page in four rows of three. Make them smaller to fit fifteen on a page, or bigger for younger learners, with six or four to a page. Each box lists all six persons: io, tu, lui/lei/Lei, noi, voi and loro. The answer key prints on separate pages, so you can hand out the worksheet and keep the key. The quick quiz is an Italian verb conjugation quiz that gives you practice out of order: 10 to 50 shuffled lines, each asking for one form, such as “noi · andare · present perfect”. If the verbs and tenses you picked cannot fill a count, that count is grayed out. The Shuffle button makes a new version for the next class, and the quiz has its own answer key too. The verb chart prints every form filled in, which gives you a printable Italian verb conjugation chart to keep in a binder. To look up a single verb instead, the Italian verb conjugation tables give each of the 600 verbs a page of its own with every form in all 15 tenses, and print it as a chart in one click.

Passato prossimo, congiuntivo and the other tenses

All 15 tenses are available, in four groups. The indicative has the present (presente), imperfect (imperfetto), past historic (passato remoto), future (futuro semplice) and present conditional (condizionale presente). The perfect tenses are the present perfect (passato prossimo), pluperfect (trapassato prossimo), future perfect (futuro anteriore) and past conditional (condizionale passato). The subjunctive has the congiuntivo presente, imperfetto, passato and trapassato. Each tense has its Italian name printed next to the English one. In the perfect tenses every verb takes the auxiliary of standard Italian, so the sheet gives ho parlato and sono andato/a, and with essere the participle shows both endings: siamo andati/e. A few verbs take either auxiliary, depending on how they are used. Correre is ho corso when you went running and sono corso/a when you ran somewhere, and the answer key shows both. Weather verbs keep to the third person: piove, è piovuto.

Reflexive verbs and commands

Any verb can be made reflexive with the +si button. Add it to alzare and the sheet works with alzarsi: mi alzo, ti alzi, si alza and on down the table. In the perfect tenses a reflexive verb always takes essere, so the sheet gives mi sono alzato/a. Verbs that are always used with si, such as pentirsi, accorgersi and vergognarsi, come with it already. The imperative has the tu, noi and voi commands and the formal Lei and Loro ones, which print on the lui/lei/Lei and loro lines: parla, parli, parliamo, parlate, parlino. The pronoun of a reflexive command is attached to it, alzati and alzatevi, but goes before the Lei and Loro forms: si alzi. Fare, andare, dare and stare have a short and a long tu command, and the sheet prints both (fa' / fai, va' / vai); the short one doubles the pronoun's consonant: fatti. The negative imperative is non with the infinitive for tu (non parlare), and with a reflexive verb the answer key gives both standard orders: non alzarti / non ti alzare.

How accurate are the forms?

The forms come from Wiktionary, and we checked every simple form of all 600 verbs, 29,886 table cells in all, against two independent sources: the verbecc conjugator and Morph-it!, a lexicon of Italian word forms built from the la Repubblica newspaper. In 29,867 cells every form the sheet prints is given by at least one of them; 9 cells had nothing to compare with. We read all 251 cells where either source differed, and Wiktionary was right every time: most were errors in the sources themselves, such as Morph-it giving prenderà for io prenderò, or a form we print beside a second standard one, such as sedetti and sedei. The 10 cells neither source confirmed are standard forms we checked by hand, such as successi, the past historic of succedere when it means to happen. Wiktionary marks stress on every word (pàrlo); the sheets use standard spelling, with an accent only where Italian writes one: parlò, poté, è. There is one limit. Where Wiktionary lists a second form, we kept it only when one of the two sources gives it too, and we left out the literary and regional ones, such as debbo beside devo. So a form your students meet in older books may not be on the sheet.

Free worksheets for teachers and classrooms

Every sheet has a name and date line, prints in black and white, and can be photocopied freely. All six persons appear in every box, so formal Lei is always there next to tu. Build one worksheet per unit, or a freshly shuffled quiz per student for Italian conjugation practice before a test. If you teach another language as well, the same generator makes Spanish, French, Portuguese and German verb conjugation worksheets.

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Licenses and credits

Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). The verb ranking comes from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).